ENGELS TO ERNST DRONKE? 
IN WATERLOO 

(Draft] 
[London,] 13 November 1876 

Dear Dronke, 

Since only five payments 4 £14=£70 have been made on the 
policy up till now, and it might well be that in the meantime you 
would find yourself compelled to make use of the money in 
another way and be unable to raise it on the 21st inst., and since I 
am actually advancing more than twice the amount already paid 
on the policy, you will pardon me if I prefer to make the payment 
myself in this instance, and I await your advice as to when. On the 
other hand, in order to oblige you so far as I can, I do not 
propose to set off against the £150 the £10 lent to you here, 
which means that I am advancing you £160 in all, and this at 5%, 
repayable 1 May 777. 

You received here £10 £160 
CHEQUE 10 November 1876 710 
To Drake & Son "60 
Payment on policy “14 94 
Herewith CHEQUE for balance £ 66 

I’ve got such frightful bronchial catarrh that I have been 
condemned to stay indoors in dressing-gown, slippers and a state 
of teetotalism, hence can’t go out to get any bank-notes. 

[Note at the end of the letter] 

Lire Association OF SCOTLAND 
5 Lombard St., E.C. 
Dust 21 Nov. aT Latest. 

First published in: Marx and Engels, Printed according to the original 
Wwe First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVI, 5 c . . 
ea Naar Eee Published in English for the first 

time 

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