Letter to Krystyu Rakovski, April 13, 1895

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 13 April 1895


First published, in Bulgarian, in Sotsialist, Nos. 54 and 55, 19 April 1895. Printed according to the newspaper text. Translated from the Bulgarian. Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 50

ENGELS TO KRYSTJU RAKOWSKI

IN NANCY

London, 13 April 1895
41 Regent's Park Road, N. W.

Dear citizen,

I am answering at once your request to drop a line to the Bulgarian comrades. Being overburdened with work, I answered in the negative the requests directed to me by the comrades both on the occasion of 18 March and on that of May Day. I also sent a negative reply last week[1] to the British Social-Democratic Federation. 44 You will see that if I were to comply with your request, I should have to comply with the requests of roughly forty groups from ten to twenty different countries, which is more than I can do. Please be so kind as to give the Bulgarian comrades my excuses and to tell them that I regret not being able to render them the service they are asking for and that in a different situation I should have been glad to write something specially for the Bulgarians as the youngest followers of socialism.

Sincerely yours,

F. Engels

  1. ↑ See this volume, p. 487