Letter to Charles Rosher, January 19, 1890

Author(s)	Friedrich Engels
Written	19 January 1890

First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 37, Moscow, 1965
Reproduced from the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 48

ENGELS TO CHARLES ROSHER

IN LONDON

[London, before 19 January 1890] [Draft]

Dear Charles,

Within two months of your engaging Percy you wrote to me asking for a loan, and in terms which hardly could leave any doubt of your intention to terminate that engagement unless I acceded to your wish.

And as soon as I had replied in the negative, you did terminate it. You can hardly deny, that if you intended to convey the idea that the engage- ment was a mere preliminary to the loan, you could not have done it better. But you now say there was no connection whatever between the two, and of course I am bound to believe you.

Yours sincerely RE.