Letter to August Bebel, November 15, 1892

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 15 November 1892


First published in Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXIX, Moscow, 1946
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 50


ENGELS TO AUGUST BEBEL

IN BERLIN

London, 15 November 1892

Dear August,

Now you see how my work gets interrupted! These absurd Tribune articles have forced me to intervene. Could you please ensure that the article appears in the next number of the Tribüne—it's already too late for this week's.[1]

Can you send me another copy of those collected articles on Bakunin? Since my copy is regularly sent to Sorge, I no longer have them here, but it might be necessary for me to refer to them. Instead of working, I have had to look out the old stuff, but it was out of the question to let this tissue of lies go unchallenged. Can you find out who its author was?

Regards to Victor.[2] Louise will today be sending an account of Trafalgar Square to Vienna.[3]

Cordial regards to Mrs Julie,

Your F. E.

[Postscript from Louise Kautsky]

Warm regards to Julie, Victor, Popp and the proper hunter before the Lord.[4] Have received the Sozialist. Many thanks. Good luck with your work.

Love

Louise

  1. ↑ Engels refers to his article "A Retrograde Sign of the Times" (see present edition, Vol. 27) published in Der Sozialist, No. 47, November 19, 1892.
  2. ↑ Adler
  3. ↑ Reference is probably to the demonstration held in Trafalgar Square on November 13, 1892 to demand the release of the Irish political prisoners. Engels's letter to August Bebel dated November 10, 1892 mentioned that this meeting would take place (see present edition, Vol. 49, p. 561).
  4. ↑ August Bebel