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Letter to Eduard Bernstein, August 9, 1888

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 9 August 1888


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVIII, Moscow, 1940
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 48


ENGELS TO EDUARD BERNSTEIN[1]

IN LONDON

S.S.City of Berlin, between
Liverpool and Queenstown[2]

9 August 1888

Dear Ede,

Never has Berlin seemed to be so beautiful as on board this City of Berlin. If the young guard lieutenants)[3] knew how good and plentiful the food is here, they'd instantly exchange the Berlin on land (or sand[4] for that on water. In 2Vi hours we should be at Queenstown and thence head for the open sea. Cordial regards to your wife,[5] the Schlüters, the Mottelers and Tauscher.

Your old friend,
The
General

  1. ↑ Engels wrote this letter on a post card. On the back was the address: E. Bernstein Esq., 4, Corinne Road, Tufnell Park, N. London.
  2. ↑ Modern name: Cobh
  3. ↑ Engels has Jardeleutnants (Berlin dialect), an allusion to William II
  4. ↑ The margraviate of Brandenburg, of which Berlin was the centre, was called the Sandbox {'Streusandbüchse') of the Empire.
  5. ↑ Regina Bernstein