[London,] 26 June 1884 
122 Regent’s Park Road, N. W. 

Dear Madam, 

The lithographed journal to which you have been so good as to 
draw my attention is already known to me by repute, although I have 
not yet been fortunate enough to see a copy of it.?°° 

Are you not, perhaps, being a trifle unjust towards your compat- 
riots? Marx and I have not, for our part, found any cause for com- 
plaint in them. While certain schools may have been more noted for 

4 Engels dictated Marx’s ms. to Oskar Eisengarten; see this volume, p. 153.-> that’s 
enough -° by Marx-‘ See this volume, p. 159. 

their revolutionary zeal than for their scientific studies, and while, 
here and there, some degree of trial and error may have been and 
may still be in evidence, we have, on the other hand, witnessed a criti- 
cal spirit and a devotion to research, even in the field of pure theory, 
wholly worthy of a nation capable of producing a Dobrolyubov and 
a Chernyshevsky. And here I speak, not only of the active revolution- 
ary socialists, but of the historical and critical school in Russian liter- 
ature, which is infinitely superior to anything of the kind produced 
in Germany and France by way of official history. And even among 
active revolutionaries our ideas, and the science of economics as re- 
modelled by Marx, have always met with an intelligent and sym- 
pathetic response. As you are doubtless aware, a number of our works 
have quite recently appeared in Russian translation, and are to be 
followed by others, notably Marx’s Poverty of Philosophy. His short 
work dating from before 1848, Wage Labour and Capital (Haemuptii 
Tpy4b u KatmuTaab), has also appeared under that title in this se- 
ries.?>7 

I am exceedingly flattered by your suggestion that a translation of 
my Outlines etc. might prove useful. Although still a little proud of 
this, my first work on social science, I am all too aware that it is now 
completely out of date and replete, not only with mistakes, but also 
with ‘howlers’. The misapprehensions it could hardly fail to engender 
would, I fear, quite outbalance such good as it might do. 

I shall be sending you by post a copy of Dühring’s Revolution etc.* 

As for our old newspaper articles, it would be difficult to lay hands 
on them just now. Most of them have little relevance today; as soon as 
the publication of the manuscripts left by Marx allows me sufficient 
leisure, I intend to bring them out as a collection with explanatory 
notes, etc. But that will not be for some time to come. 

I am not quite sure what you mean by the manifesto addressed to 
English working men. Might it be THe Civi. War in France, the 
International’s manifesto on the Paris Commune”? That I could send 
you. 

If my health permitted, I should ask your permission to come and 
call on you; unfortunately I am not allowed to go out and about, 
though I feel reasonably well when at home-— Should you be willing 

@ F. Engels, Anti-Dihring. Herr Eugen Dithring’s Revolution in Science.- » K. Marx, The 
Civil War in France. Address of the General Council of the International Working Men’s As- 

sociation. 

to do me the honour of dropping in on me here, you would always 
find me at your service round about seven or eight o’clock in the 
evening. 

I am, Madam, 

Yours very truly, 

F. Engels