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Letter to The SPD Secretariat, November 29, 1892

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 29 November 1892


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 38, Moscow, 1965
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 50

TO THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY SECRETARIAT IN BERLIN

London, 29 November 1892

Dear Party Secretariat,[1]

My request to you, my dear Fischer, is that you also convey these thanks to your people.

While you, my dear Auer, must submit to my insisting that you now adopt in the personal sense the Du with which you, as the first half of the Secretariat, have hitherto been addressing me solely in a collective sense, it being understood that next year we shall make up for our failure to celebrate the solemn rite of Schmollis.

As the Hyena has also been brought into this affair, I shall give her the floor.

Your

F. Engels

[Postscript from Louise Kautsky]

It will be difficult, generally speaking, to give Bamberger the floor in London. Press Hyena's note.

[Postscript from Engels]

Yes, but who in fact is the Hyena?

  1. ↑ This comes with my sincere thanks for your kind good wishes.