Letter to Maria Mendelson, January 10, 1893

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 10 January 1893


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXIX, Moscow, 1946
Printed according to the original
Translated from the French
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 50


ENGELS TO MARIA MENDELSON[1]

IN LONDON

[London,] 10 January 1893

Dear Mme Mendelson

Thank you for your letter. I immediately wrote a short article on the arrests in Paris which left for Berlin that same evening—you will probably see it in Vorwärts in a few days.[2]

Ever yours,

F. E.

Bebel has left this afternoon. Greetings from Mme Kautsky.

  1. ↑ Engels wrote the following lines on a postcard. He also wrote the address: Mrs. Mendelson 27, Stonor Road, West Kensington, W.
  2. ↑ Maria Mendelson, a Polish socialist, told Engels about the arrest in France on 7 January 1893 of Polish emigres accused of plotting to assassinate the Russian Czar Alexander II I. Engels' article exposing the collaboration of the French and Russian police 'On the Latest Caper of the Paris Police' (see present edition, Vol. 27), was published anonymously by the newspaper Vorwärts (No. 11) on 13 January 1893 in the section Politische II bersicht. The following editorial note was attached to the article: 'We are getting word from most com-petent quarters about the escapade of the Paris police that we reported yesterday'.