Letter to Walery Wróblewski, April 9, 1891

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 9 April 1891


Printed according to the original
Translated from the French
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 49
First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 38, Moscow, 1965


ENGELS TO WALERY WRÔBLEWSKI

IN LONDON

[Draft]

[London,] 9 April 1891

My dear Wrôblewski,

You must forgive me if I ask you not to insist on my carrying out the commission entrusted to me in your letter of the 5th. I have no right to meddle either in the Polish party's internal affairs, of which I have virtually no knowledge, or in the private affairs of Citizen Mendelson.[1] In the circumstances it seems to me that further intervention on my part could only be detrimental to the effect you hope to achieve. In your own interest it would, I believe, be preferable for you to come to an understanding with Mendelson direct. You can do so without the slightest fear that letters addressed to 1 Hyde Park Mansions, N.W. will fail to reach him, for I know that he is now installed there.

Hoping that you will be successful and that you will soon be able to let me have better news,

I remain,

Yours sincerely

  1. ↑ See this volume, pp. 156-57.