Letter to Friedrich Adolph Sorge, August 27, 1890

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 27 August 1890


First published abridged 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 and in full in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVIII, Moscow, 1940
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 49


ENGELS TO FRIEDRICH ADOLPH SORGE

IN HOBOKEN

Folkestone, 27 August 1890

Have received postcards of 9 and 13 August. There was so much to be seen to at the time of our departure[1] that a great deal had to be shoved to one side. Moreover I had to keep pretty quiet about my destination, since young William[2] was also over there and I didn't want my pleasure marred by police chicanery.

Who is the present editor-in-chief of the Volkszeitung[3] ? Tussy ran into Schewitsch at a meeting in London and he told her he had heard in New York that I had spoken about him in very spiteful terms. That, however, is absolutely untrue. Might it have originated from A. Jonas?

The little students' revolt in Germany[4] was quickly broken up by Bebel. One very good thing about it was that it showed what we have to expect from literati and Berliners.

Your

F. E.

The Neue Zeit will be asking you to report on America and will pay well.

  1. ↑ to Norway
  2. ↑ William II
  3. ↑ New Yorker Volkszeitung
  4. ↑ See this volume, p. 5.