London, 5 August 1890 

Dear Kautsky, 

Your letter of 3 July lay here neglected while Schorlemmer and 
I were away gallivanting in Norway— much to the benefit of our 
health, be it said. 

Since I don’t know where to write to, I am sending this to Dietz 
without sealing it, so that the prospectus for the Neue Zeit,* which Ede * 
showed me on Sunday,” can be altered accordingly, should it be 
thought desirable. 

You may promise yourself an article by me entitled Von den letzten 
Dingen and I in turn promise that you shall have it. I also intend to 
keep my promise —indeed I have partially done so already, since 
a good half of the article is finished. As to when it will be completely 
finished, however, that could be either very soon or not for a long 
time to come, depending on circumstances — let’s say in time for the 
first of next year’s issues.° 

If Bebel’s review of the week is as well done as his articles to date in 
Victor’s © Arbeiter-Keitung, you may certainly congratulate yourselves. 
Here, of course, | am thinking first and foremost of Germany. 

Sorge’s address is: F. A. Sorge, Hoboken, N.J. (i.e. New Jersey), 
U.S. America. He’s the best man for you people. I shall also write to 
him about it.4 Obviously you must pay him exceptionally well — 
otherwise he’d prefer to give music lessons. He is also unlikely to sub- 
mit regular reports and indeed it is better that he should not. Some- 
times months may go by without anything of real importance happen- 
ing, sometimes he may send you a crucial piece of news every week. 

During our voyage of discovery we pressed on as far as North Cape 
where we ate cop caught by ourselves. For five days on end there was 
no night, or rather only dusk; to make up for it we saw all kinds of 
Laplanders, funny little chaps, obviously of very mixed race, with 
brown, black or even very fair hair——features Mongoloid on the 

@ Eduard Bernstein-> 3 August-‘* Victor Adler-¢ See this volume, p. 20. 

whole but with variations ranging from the American Indian (except 
that it would take six of them to make one Indian) to the Teu- 
ton. These little chaps, who are still three-quarters in the Stone Age, 
are most interesting. 

Many regards. 

Your 
F. E.