Letter to Karl Kautsky, December 2, 1885

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 2 December 1885


First published, in Russian, in Marx-Engels Archives, Vol. I (VI), Moscow, 1932
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 47


ENGELS TO KARL KAUTSKY

IN LONDON

[London,] 2 December 1885

Dear Kautsky,

Ad vocem[1] Adler:

1) Re the pistol business, don't forget to point out that the NCOs were wearing their sabres. They complained of an affront to the NCO caste.

2) Hess. It is not of course possible to confirm — for I never saw him again after May 1848, when he disappeared for good — whether or not he spent a few days in Baden or the Palatinate. But he didn't 'take part'; he was neither orator, nor journalist, nor official, nor soldier, so it's inconceivable that some government or other — Adler certainly ought to have said which one — should have condemned him to death.

Ad vocem Liebknecht. Before you post the letter, give me a chance to enclose a word or two of explanation; there was something I forgot to tell him yesterday.[2]

Your

F.E.

  1. ↑ As regards
  2. ↑ See previous letter.