Letter to Pablo Iglesias, April 1893

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 31 March 1893


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

ENGELS TO PABLO IGLESIAS

IN MADRID [Draft]

London, April 1893[1]

Dear friend Iglesias,

I cannot answer your letter without first complaining of your addressing me formally with usted. I don't think I have deserved this. We are old members of the International and have been fighting side by side, for over twenty years in the same battles. When I was your Secretary for Spain, your people did me the honour of addressing me informally with tu,[2] and so I ask you to go on in the same way.

Enclosed herewith are a few lines[3] for your May issue,[4] I have written to Eleanor Marx-Aveling and to Bebel, asking them to contribute their share.

Regards and revolution,

Yours

  1. ↑ 31 March
  2. ↑ an equivalent of French vous and tu
  3. ↑ F. Engels, 'To the Spanish Workers—on the First of May 1893'.
  4. ↑ El Socialista