Letter to Pasquale Martignetti, November 8, 1884
| Author(s) | Friedrich Engels |
|---|---|
| Written | 8 November 1884 |
Printed according to the original translated from the Italian
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 47
ENGELS TO PASQUALE MARTIGNETTI
IN BENEVENTO
London, 8 November 1884
122 Regent's Park Road, N. W.
Dear Sir,
On receiving your kind letter of 27th last I sent you a copy of my pamphlet The Origin etc.,[1] and I would have sent it sooner had I known for certain that your last address was still valid.
I congratulate you on the splendid progress you have made in your study of the German language. I entrust you with the Italian translation of The Origin with pleasure and confidence. I have received in the meantime an earlier and similar offer from another quarter,[2] which I have not yet accepted. In order to reject it definitively, it would be useful for me to know whether you have at your disposal a publisher who will print and publish your translation without delay.[3]
I remain with respect your devoted
F. Engels
- ↑ The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.
- ↑ See this volume, pp. 204-05.
- ↑ In his reply to Engels of 18 November, Pasquale Martignetti informed him that he had conducted talks with the publisher Gennaro, who had issued the Italian translation of Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, and that the latter had agreed to publish The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.