Letter to Nikolai Danielson, February 11, 1885

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 11 February 1885


First published, in Russian, in Minuvshiye gody, No. 2, St Petersburg, 1908. Reproduced from the original. Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 47


ENGELS TO NIKOLAI DANIELSON

IN ST PETERSBURG

London, 11 February 1885

My dear Sir,

I shall be glad to send you the proof-sheets of Volume II as soon as you let me know whether I shall send them sous bande (per book-post) or in a closed envelope as a letter. The fact is, that if one gets lost, it will be impossible to replace it until the work is completed. By the time your answer arrives I expect to have two or three for you.

I thank you very much for the offer you made me some time ago to place at my disposal the letters you have from Mr Williams.[1] At present the manuscripts claim all my time and attention, but the moment is sure to come when I shall take advantage of your kind offer.

Have you any news from our mutual friend since the accident which happened to him some time ago?[2]

Be kind enough to address in future as stated at foot.

Yours very sincerely,

P. Rosher

Mrs Rosher 6 Richmond Villas, Messina Avenue, West Hampstead, N.W. London

  1. ↑ Marx's pseudonym
  2. ↑ Hermann Lopatin was arrested in St Petersburg on 6 October 1884 and was under investigation up to May 1887; on 4 June 1887 he was sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment in Schlisselburg fortress. Lopatin was released on 28 October 1905.