Letter to Victor Adler, November 15, 1890

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 15 November 1890


First published in Victor Adlers Aufsätze, Reden und Briefe. Erstes Heft: Victor Adler und Friedrich Engels, Wien, 1922
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 49


ENGELS TO VICTOR ADLER

IN VIENNA

London, 15 November 1890
122 Regent's Park Road, N.W.

Dear Adler,

Many thanks for your letter. The Avelings have just arrived with a telegram — 'SEND MONEY'— from Louise who was proposing to leave Vienna today.[1] Aveling at once sent her a cheque for ten pounds. But since I fear that it won't be paid before it has been referred back, which takes time, I thought it safer to take out a money order for ten pounds over here, and to do this in jour name, since Louise may already have left by the time it arrives; over here it has been taken out in the name of Edward Aveling. According to what the Post Office says, we are to retain the order itself over here, as the money will be paid to you at your home address which was the one we gave.

Should Louise have already left, please keep the money at our disposal until further notice.

Your

F. Engels

Aveling has just come back — it's altogether too late, since orders are not issued after 4 o'clock on Saturdays!! So we shall send it on Monday.

  1. ↑ See this volume, pp. 68-69.