ENGELS TO W. HOLZENHAUER?”’ 

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{Manchester,] 26 November 1868 

Following receipt of your letter dated 18 August I inquired at 
home about the circumstances in which you had left my 
brothers’ ?** business and also sought to find out whether there was 
any prospect of your obtaining employment there again. 

Now I have received the relevant information, and unfortunate- 
ly it is such that I can offer you no hope whatsoever of obtaining 
employment there again. I am therefore returning to you enclosed 
the false, as you say, testimony of my brother-in-law.’ In view of 
the information received, I must, it is true, assume this testimony 
does not wholly correspond to reality, a fact on which you may 
congratulate yourself, to be sure. 

Respectfully yours,