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Letter to Friedrich Adolph Sorge, August 28, 1888

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 28 August 1888


First published in Briefe und Auszüge aus Briefen von Job. Phil. Becker, Jos. Dietzgen, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx u. A. an F. A. Sorge und Andere, Stuttgart, 1906
Printed according to the original
Published in English in Science and Society, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1938
Reproduced in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 48


ENGELS TO FRIEDRICH ADOLPH SORGE[1]

IN HOBOKEN

Postmarked Boston,

28 August 1888

Dear Old Man,

Arrived here yesterday morning; your letters[2] reached Schorlemmer and myself this morning—very many thanks. I left my cough behind in Hoboken and Schorlemmer has also got over his trouble. We have just been with Mrs Harney, who says Harney will be coming to London in October, so I shall see him there. I have not yet been able to get hold of my nephew,[3] but expect to see him tomorrow, either here in the hotel or in Roxbury. Boston is an awful sprawl but more human than New York City, and Cambridge is actually very pretty and looks quite European and continental. Warm regards to you and your wife.[4] But for the two of you we should still be ailing. We are staying until Saturday.[5] Letters are sure to find us here till Friday night.

Your

P.E.

  1. ↑ Engels wrote this letter on a post card. He indicated the address on the back: F. A. Sorge, Hoboken, New Jersey. For the first publication of the letter in English see note 29.
  2. ↑ of 27 August 1888
  3. ↑ Willie Burns
  4. ↑ Katharine Sorge
  5. ↑ 1 September