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Letter to Friedrich Adolph Sorge, February 27, 1874

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 27 February 1874


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVI, Moscow, 1935
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 45


ENGELS TO FRIEDRICH ADOLPH SORGE

IN HOBOKEN

London, 27 February 1874

Dear Sorge,

The things listed on the back of this letter were sent off to you today in a parcel addressed to F. A. Sorge, General Secretary I.W.M. Association, 25 Hudson Street, Hoboken, N.J. via New York, per Continental Parcels Express Company (W. Wheatley & Co.—New York Agents: W. H. Bucknam & Co., 57 Broadway). Carriage forwarded, Value declared £10.

The BRITISH FEDERAL COUNCIL has become so lackadaisical that I have not yet managed to extract an official price for the English Rules[1] from them — only a POSTCARD from Barry saying, I THINK I... Will.

I am charging 2 shillings each for the Alliance[2] but in return am paying the carriage of those sent by post.[3]

I have to leave in an hour for a few days, so farewell and keep your chin up. Your police seem to want to outdo even those in Versailles.

Your

F. Engels

  1. ↑ K. Marx, General Rules and Administrative Regulations of the International Working Men's Association.
  2. ↑ K. Marx and F. Engels, The Alliance of Socialist Democracy and the International Working Men's Association.
  3. ↑ See this volume, p. 7.