Letter to Florence Kelley, May 16, 1888

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 16 May 1888


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVIII, Moscow, 1940
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 48


ENGELS TO FLORENCE KELLY-WISCHNEWETZKY

IN NEW YORK

London, 16 May 1888

Dear Mrs Wischnewetzky,

Per today's mail the rest of the preface[1] goes registered. Reeves is willing to take the agency for the pamphlet[2] at the same percentage as before, and wishes to have his name on the title page under that of the New York publisher, viz.

London William Reeves, 185 Fleet Street, E. C.

This is at least some guarantee against piracy on his part, and he is the most dangerous man in this respect. If you will forward the copies intended for him to me I will get them delivered against receipt, 300-500 will do to begin with.

The German translation will follow as soon as Mrs Kautsky has done copying it. That may be delayed some days as we expect the Züricher Ausgewiesener[3] here every day and they will keep us rather busy at first.

Yours faithfully,

F. Engels

  1. ↑ F. Engels, 'Protection and Free Trade'
  2. ↑ K. Marx, Speech on the Question of Free Trade
  3. ↑ Zurich exiles