ENGELS TO HERMANN MEYER” 

Manchester, 18 October 1867 

Dear Meyer, 

I received your telegram this morning and can’t say how sorry I 
am that I am unable to go to Liverpool this evening. My associé” 
and our chief clerk* are both away tomorrow, and so I have to be 
here to sign cheques and keep an eye on everything myself. 
Moreover, we close at 1 o'clock here on Saturdays, and as you 
yourself are not arriving in Liverpool until about 11 o’clock this 
evening and the Russia sails at 12 o’clock, you will see for yourself 
that there is nothing to be done. 

Please write your address and Mrs Weydemeyer’s on the 
enclosed piece of paper and then hand in the envelope at the 
hotel for posting. Please convey my hearty greetings to Mrs 
Weydemeyer and tell her I would have written her a few lines 
long ago if I had known her address. 

I hope you will be able to bring Marx’s book* to the attention of 
the German-American press and of the workers. With the 

* the first volume of Capital - > Gottfried Ermen - © Charles Roesgen 

8-hour-agitation that is in progress in America now, this book 
with its chapter on the working day will come at just the right time 
for you over there, and, in other respects too, it is likely to clarify 
people’s minds on a variety of issues. The future of the party in 
America will be greatly beholden to you for any step you can take 
in that direction. 

Please pass on my best greetings to Jacobi* in New York as well. 

Have a safe journey! 

Yours most sincerely 
Friedrich Engels