ENGELS TO FLORENCE KELLEY-WISCHNEWETZKY 

London, 4 February 1885 
122 Regent’s Park Road, N. W. 

Dear Madam, 

I hope you have received the letter I wrote to you about the time of 
the New Year.°° 

I now forward to you, registered, the ms. you sent to me, and only 
regret that press of work prevented my returning it earlier.*+9 I have 
looked it over carefully, and entered some corrections and suggestions 
in pencil, in order to show you how I should like it translated. Here 
and there you may find that my suggestions, taken together with the 
rest of the sentence, will not turn out to be correct English; in these 
cases I left it to you to set that right. 

As for the technical terms, if you will be good enough to forward 
me from time to time a list of them with the pages on which they oc- 
cur, I shall be glad to give you the English equivalents. 

The German preface (as well as the English dedication) 95° 
I would, in your place, leave out entirely. They contain nothing of 
interest now. The first part of the preface refers to a phase of intellec- 
tual development in Germany and elsewhere which is now almost 
forgotten, and the second part is in our days superfluous. 

As to translations of my other writings you will understand as 
a matter of course that J cannot now take any positive engagements. 
There are people here who wish to translate one thing or another, 
and I have consented conditionally, that is to say if they find a pub- 
lisher and really undertake the work. 

The English preface I shall write 3° when things are a little more 
advanced. 

In the meantime I remain 

Yours very truly, 
F. Engels