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Letter to Karl Kautsky, August 17, 1887

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 17 August 1887


First published in Aus der Frühzeit des Marxismus. Engels Briefwechsel mit Kautsky, Prag, 1935, and in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVII, Moscow, 1935
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 48


ENGELS TO KARL KAUTSKY

IN LONDON

Eastbourne, 17 August 1887
4 Cavendish Place

Dear Kautsky,

Please excuse the belated return of the enclosed, which I have read with thanks.[1] I shall be interested to peruse the clean proofs of the More,[2] though I don't see of what help I can be to you in this.

We shall be coming back on Saturday week, 27 August,[3] by which time my house will presumably be habitable once more.

If you happen to be passing Regent's Park Road I should be greatly obliged if you would drop in there and leave 3 or 4 large (long) envelopes, addressed to me here; I had left some there but they would all seem to have been used up. I mean the sort of envelope in which my people will be able to send me 3 or 4 letters at a time.

For the rest, we are as merry as grigs and are expecting Sam Moore this evening. Last night we at last had a storm, but it's fine again now.

Regards from my family to yours. The Avelings are at Stratford-on- Avon, revelling in Shakespeariana at source.

Your

F. E.

  1. ↑ Apparently this refers to the biography of Engels, written by Karl Kautsky for the Osterreichischer Arbeiter-Kalender of 1888.
  2. ↑ K. Kautsky, Thomas More und seine Utopie, Stuttgart, 1888
  3. ↑ Engels holidayed in Eastbourne from 23 July to 2 September.