Letter to Pyotr Lavrov, April 10, 1882

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 10 April 1882


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,] 10 April 1882
122 Regent's Park Road

My dear Lavrov,

I am returning the proofs,[1] for which I thank you. I should have done so earlier had I not hoped to see you last night and to say Xpwc[2]

Would you be so kind as to lend me the German manuscript of the preface for a day or two? The Sozialdemokrat has asked us to send it to them and, since the thing has appeared in the Hapoduan eonn[3] (to which we are proud to find ourselves contributors), there can no longer be any objection.

Yours sincerely,

F. Engels

Our ideas seem to me to have been very well rendered.

  1. ↑ For the most part, this paragraph coincides with the note printed by the Vorwärts on 11 July 1877 in the 'Sozialpolitische Uebersicht' column, which opened with the words 'We have received a letter from Pam'and was supplied with editorial comments.
    The note may have been written by Carl Hirsch, who used a passage from Engels' letter to him (which has not been found). The comment on the note was probably written by Hasenclever.
  2. ↑ Engels is using a Russian Easter greeting in an ironical form
  3. ↑ Narodnaya Volya