Letter to Wilhelm Liebknecht, August 31, 1888

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 31 August 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 WILHELM LIEBKNECHT[1]

IN BORSDORF NEAR LEIPZIG

Boston, 31 August 1888

Dear Liebknecht,

A moment ago, at 9.30 a.m., that is, we saw in the Boston Herald that you had been elected in Berlin with an absolute majority of more than 10,000 votes[2] and we—myself, Schorlemmer and both the Avelings— send you our heartiest congratulations.

Boston Herald - b Katharina Sorge

We spent a week in New York resp. Hoboken (with Sorge) and have been here since Monday.[3] Tomorrow we go to Niagara and if possible from there to Chicago, otherwise to the Oil Regions, and then, after Toronto, Montreal, Lake Champlain, the Adirondacks and Albandy, down the Hudson back to New York, whence we sail for Liverpool by the City of New York on 18/19 September. Very nice trip, have learned a great deal and have been sweating good and proper at last—something that never happened to us back home this summer. Regards to your wife,[4] Bebel and Singer.

Your

F.E.

  1. ↑ The letter was written on hotel notepaper with the address: Adams House, No.553. Washington Street, Boston.
  2. ↑ After failing to poll the requisite number of votes at the Reichstag election of 21 February 1887,Wilhelm Liebknecht succeeded in winning a seat in the run-off in Berlin's Fourth constituency on 30 August 1888 in lieu of Wilhelm Hasenclever, who had dropped out for health reasons.
  3. ↑ 27 August
  4. ↑ Natalie Liebknecht