Letter to Hermann Schluter, December 2, 1893 (1)

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 2 December 1893


First published abridged in Briefe und Auszüge aus Briefen von Job. Phil. Becker, Jos. Dietzgen, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx u. A. an F. A. Sorge und Andere, Stuttgart, 1906 and in full, in Russian, in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXIX, Moscow, 1946
Printed according to the original
Published in English in full for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 50


ENGELS TO HERMANN SCHLÜTER

IN HOBOKEN

No. 1

[London], 2 December 1893

Dear Schlüter,

Many thanks for your good wishes and for Census Compendium I which was most welcome and of which No. II will be more welcome still.[1] So the Americans are no longer as liberal as they used to be, and even a big journal does not get such things merely for the asking! All is well over here; I am once more at work on Vol. III[2] and it is with pleasure that I look back on the trip I made this summer. You people are now at last about to rid yourselves of bimetallism and the McKinley tariff and this should give a considerable boost to progress over there. Although a thorough-going collapse of silver might have gone a long way towards enlightening your remarkably stupid American farmer in regard to his cheap money. Regards from Mrs Kautsky.

Yours,

F.E.

Census book—see second postcard.

  1. ↑ Department of the Interior, Census Office. Compendium of the Eleventh Census: 1890, Parts I-II, Washington, 1892-1894.
  2. ↑ of Capital