Letter to Pasquale Martignetti, March 12, 1886

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 12 March 1886


First published in La corrispondenza di Marx e Engels con italiani. 1848-1895, Milano, 1964
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 47


ENGELS TO PASQUALE MARTIGNETTI

IN BENEVENTO

London, 12 March 1886

Dear Citizen,

Please excuse the belated reply. I have received your kind letter of 8 February and the manuscript,[1] which I shall deal with as soon as possible. But at the moment I am obliged before anything else to check through the English translation of Capital, Volume I, which is most pressing and must be printed without delay; it is no easy task. When I have a free moment I shall devote it to your work.

I have also received, and I thank you for them, the 6 copies of the Origin etc.[2]

I am sorry that my error 'Paolo' caused you inconvenience.

I shall not repeat it.

I must get hold of the calendar in order to restore the passage that was stuck and illegible; I hope to find it here in London at a friend's house; this is another cause of delay.

I am sorry I cannot do better and more quickly than this, but the English Capital must take precedence; in any case I am committed by a deadline to the publisher.

With respect I remain

F. Engels

I hope to spare some time in April on Wage Labour and Capital.

  1. ↑ of the Italian translation of Marx's Wage Labour and Capital
  2. ↑ The Italian translation of Engels' work The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State was done by Pasquale Martignetti and edited by Engels himself (see this volume, p. 215). The Polish edition appeared in Paris in 1885, and the Russian translation was published in St Petersburg in 1894.