Letter to Friedrich Adolph Sorge, August 3, 1886

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 3 August 1886


First published in Briefe und Auszüge aus Briefen von Joh. Phil. Becker, Jos. Dietzgen, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx u. A. an F. A. Sorge und Andere, Stuttgart, 1906
Published in English in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 47


ENGELS TO FRIEDRICH ADOLPH SORGE

IN MOUNT DESERT

[London,] 3 August 1886

Interview[1] received with thanks; amused me greatly. Of course the idiot[2] puts into my mouth all the silly things he himself said. Commonweal, 1 May-17 July, will follow in 2 parcels tomorrow. I now get them through Lessner at intervals, but complete. To-Day will follow as soon as I have got the July no. which is still missing.

Translation of ms. b will be finished the day after tomorrow and last part handed over to publishers.0 320 pages have been printed, almost the same as 3rd German edition. Hope it will be finished by end of September and published in October. Am also going to the seaside this Saturday,d hope it will do us both and also your wife good.

Your

F.E.

  1. ↑ The reference is to the interview which Engels gave to J. T. McEnnis, a correspondent for The Missouri Republican (see this volume, p. 443). Following the publication of the interview, Sorge placed in the New Yorker Volkszeitung, No. 162, 8 July 1886 the statement sent to him by Engels (see present edition, Vol. 26, p. 408).
  2. ↑ John T. McEnnis b the English translation of the first volume of Capital (see Note 56) ' William Swan Sonnenschein d 7 August