Letter to Charles Fitzgerald, between January 26 and 28, 1884

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 26 January 1884


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVII, Moscow, 1935
Reproduced from the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 47


ENGELS TO CHARLES FITZGERALD[1]

IN LONDON

[Draft]

[London, between 26 and 28 January 1884]

Enclosed I beg to hand you post office order 10[sh.] 10 for my year's subscription to Justice.

I am so overcharged with work, not only for the immediate future, but for a considerable period of time to come, that it would be folly on my part to promise contributions to your paper. I have been disabled from active work for the last six months and am only now slowly re-gaining the strength necessary to accomplish my most urgent task — to prepare for the press the manuscripts left by my late friend Marx. So that I am bound to devote all my time. I did promise an article to To-Day but that was in better days and I am afraid they too will have to wait.

  1. ↑ Charles Fitzgerald was a British socialist and journalist who was active in the Social Democratic Federation.