Letter to Panait Musoiu, March 20, 1894

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 20 March 1894


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


ENGELS TO PANAIT MUSOIU

IN BUCHAREST

London, 20 March 1894 122 Regent's Park Road, N. W.

Dear Comrade,

Owing to my absence from London[1] I have been prevented from answering your letter of 24 February any earlier. This I duly received as well as the Manifestul comunist and Socialism utopic si socialism stüntific[2] for which very many thanks. Unfortunately I am not yet sufficiently versed in Romanian to be able to give an opinion on the merits of your translation. But I would caution you against taking the French translation as a basis when working on a German book.

Unfortunately time does not permit me to comply with your request that I write a preface to the new edition. I am busy putting the finishing touches to Volume III of Marx's Capital and, since printing is going rapidly ahead, I must devote all my time to the completion of the rest of the manuscript in order that no hold-ups should occur.

With kindest regards,

F. Engels

  1. ↑ See this volume, pp. 333-34.
  2. ↑ K. Marx and F. Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party; F. Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific