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Letter to Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, May 28, 1892

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 28 May 1892


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXIX, Moscow, 1946
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 49
Reproduced from the original


ENGELS TO SIR HENRY ENFIELD ROSCOE

IN LONDON

[Draft]

[London,] 28 May [1892]

Dear Sir Henry,

Many thanks for your note of yesterday.[1] Gumpert has in fact given me a full report of the consultation with Dreschfeld, whom already 3 or 4 weeks ago he had proposed to Schorlemmer to call in, but Schorlemmer would not hear of it. As both medical men agree perfectly in their diagnosis, I am afraid there is but little hope left to us.

I have my friend Bebel of the German Reichstag here staying with me until middle of next week,[2] and intend driving over to Manchester about Thursday 4 8 5 unless called before by Gumpert.

If I do not reciprocate the style of address employed in your note,[3] it is simply because that note is in the handwriting of a third party, and therefore an unintentional mistake not quite excluded.

Yours truly

  1. ↑ On 27 May 1892 Henry Enfield Roscoe informed Engels of the doctors' pessimistic assessment of Carl Schorlemmer's condition and expressed his regret at being unable to go to Manchester.
  2. ↑ August Bebel and Paul Singer visited Engels in London approximately between 14 May and 1 June 1892.
  3. ↑ In his note of 27 May 1892 H. E. Roscoe uses the phrase 'Dear Engels'.