Letter to Norris A. Clowes, July 22, 1881

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 22 July 1881


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVII, Moscow 1935
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 46

MECW vol 46 writes : Clowes, Morris A.— American journalist, correspondent of the New-York Star for Ireland in the early 1880s, Theodor Friedrich Cuno's acquaintance.

TO NORRIS A. CLOWES IN NEW YORK

[Draft] London, 22 July 1881

122 Regent's Park Road, N. W.

Norris A. Clowes Esq.

Dear Sir,

I am sorry my time will not allow me to write to you the statement you desire.[1] However, if you wish to make yourself acquainted with the present state of the Labour Movement in Great Britain, you will find the necessary information in the weekly Labour Standard published at 2 Whitefriars St. of which twelve numbers have up to now been issued. Most of the non-signed leaders are written by me.

If you wish to enter into communication with Mr Most, you had better write to the Editor of the Freiheit,[2] 252 Tottenham Court Road, W., London, who will be able to tell you whether such communication will be possible under present circumstances.

I shall be glad to see you in case you should come to London.

I remain

Yours very truly,

F. E.

  1. ↑ In the manuscript the following passage is crossed out here: 'as it would require entering into the history of the British working class and its action since at least 1824, if not since the industrial revolution caused by steam, and to that my time will not allow'.
  2. ↑ Karl Schneidt