Letter to Pyotr Lavrov, February 23, 1882

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 23 February 1882


First published, in Russian, in the magazine Letopisi marksizma, Book V, Moscow-Leningrad, 1928
Printed according to the original translated from the French
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 46


ENGELS TO PYOTR LAVROV

IN LONDON

[London,] 23 February 1882
122 Regent's Park Road, N. W.

My Dear Friend,

The Financial Reform Almanack 1882 gives the following addresses: Dilke, W. Ashton, 1 Hyde Park Gate, S. W. Ditto Sir Charles, 76 Sloane St, S. W. When I got home from your place I found a letter from Dr Donkin (the one who treated Hartmann some time ago, and also the Marx family) in which he says:

  • 'I had a letter from Hartmann a few days ago (dating from 14 Huntley St, Bedford Sq.) asking me if he might come and see me. I answered his letter directly — giving him the choice of two days — but have heard nothing of him.

'In case my letters have miscarried will you tell me if you know anything about him. If you see him perhaps you will tell him that I will see him any morning here (60 Upper Berkeley St., W.) between 11 and 12 o'clock.'*

Would you be so kind as to pass on the preceding lines to Hartmann? Since Donkin's letter failed to arrive, I fear there may be some mistake as to the number, of which I am not sure, since I know of it only from Donkin. Hence it is impossible for me to communicate with Hartmann direct or with any certainty, and that is why I am asking you to act as intermediary, the more so since you say it is quite close to your place.

I am replying to Donkin,[1] saying that I hope to be able to tell him something more precise within the next few days; if possible, could you let me have some further information concerning this mat- ter on Sunday evening?

Yours ever,

F. Engels

  1. ↑ A reference to the Adzhars' guerrilla warfare in the rear of the Russian army in the Caucasus, which held back its advance in that theatre of war.