ENGELS TO HERMANN ENGELS 


IN BARMEN 


Manchester, 28 November 1867 


Dear Hermann, 


Forgive me for leaving your two letters unanswered for so long. 
Many things were to blame for this, but above all the fact that 
yarns were certain not to go up for the time being and—with no 
demand from you at the moment—there was thus no danger in 
delay. 

The sewiscs we normally send out bleached and dyed in the 
finer nos., are doubled by us from the same cors which we also 
send to you. (36/45 Taylor, finer No. Knowles.) But we can have 
these cors doubled by a pouster for you here, and the sewincs would 
at today’s prices then cost 


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291. Engels to Hermann Engels. 28 November 1867 481 


No.: 36 40 50 60 70 80 


19d. 19'/od. 2/1 2/7 2/11 3/3 
For piamonp 2d., however, we use a yarn that has been doubled 


on the pous.inc Frame but is more loosely spun; at today’s prices that 
costs us 


No.: 36 40 50 60 70 80 


18d. 18'/od. 20d. 2/1 2/3 2/5 

I am enclosing a sample of the latter in No. 60, but you also had 
some of this last spring, bale No. 319, delivery note 9 April, so 
you can compare whether you need this cheaper product or 
whether you must have the more expensive yarns with real sewinc 
TWIST. 

We are all expecting a drop in prices here in view of the 
exceptionally good American harvest. Mippunc was selling at 
6'/. FREE on BoARD in New Orleans. However, the spinning 
business is very much in the doldrums just now, and so when 
things first pick up again yarn might well remain stable, even if 
there is a fall in cotton. The fine nos. will hold their own best, the 
orpinary fine poustes being already cheaper than in 1860 (16d. as 
against 18d. for corrotp). The prices I gave you overleaf are 
approximately the same as those at the end of 1859 and the 
beginning of 1860, the more expensive 60s being then at 2s. 5d., 
the 40s at 19d., and the cheaper 60s was anything a little more 
expensive then. I cannot make an exact comparison as we were not 
using the same threads in those days. 

Otherwise everything is pretty much as usual here. From time to 
time, a bit of a tussle, now with Anton, now with Gottfried,* 
ensures that our old love never fades. 

I am wishing myself many happy returns of my birthday today 
from all of you, and send you all my very best wishes. I shall be 
answering mother’s” letter one day soon."*! 


Your 
Friedrich 


First published in: Marx and Engels, Printed according to the original 
Works First Rugsian Edligon,, Vol: 22Vs Published in English for the first 
Moscow, 1934 sine 


@ Anton and Gottfried Ermen - > Elisabeth Engels’