Enclosed please find an article* for the Jahrbticher” I have put 
the Dante thing to one side for the time being. I would have sent 
it sooner if I had had anything like enough time. 

I got your letter after it had gone to a number of wrong 
addresses. Why didn’t I send Schelling und die Offenbarung< to the 
Jahrbiicher? 1) Because what I had in mind was a book of between 
5 and 6 folios and this was cut down to 3'/, folios only in the 
course of my negotiations with the publishers. 2) Because up to 
then the Jahrbücher had been a little reserved about Schelling. 
3) Because people here advised against attacking Schelling in a 
journal and told me rather to put out a pamphlet against him. 
Schelling, der Philosoph in Christo is also from my pen. 

Apart from all this, 1 am not a Doctor and cannot ever become 
one. I am only a merchant and a Royal Prussian artillerist, so 
kindly spare me that title. 

I hope to send you another manuscript very soon and in the 
meantime I remain 

Yours sincerely, 
F. Engels (Oswald) 
Berlin, June 15, 42 


Dorotheenstr. 56 


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