{London,}] 24 September 1875 
122 Regent’s Park Road, N. W. 

My dear Mr Lavrov, 

On my return from Ramsgate where I had spent a few weeks,'™ 
I found your letter of the 20th, along with a pile of newspapers, 
books, etc.. which had arrived during my absence. To start with I 
shall try to get all this into some kind of order and, as soon as 
possible, turn to reading your article in Bnepedo!*—so as to be able 
to tell you where we agree and where we differ in our views on 
the relationship of socialism to the struggle for existence as 
propounded by Darwin.” If this does not reach you within a day 
or two, you must excuse me on the grounds of the many letters I 
have to write and the backlog of work that remains to be tackled, 
since for the past month I have only been able to do those things 
which absolutely had to be done without delay. 

I do not know the pamphlet of which you speak '"; if you could 
let me have it by post for a day or two, I should be much obliged. 

We once more have a Portuguese paper, O Protesto (The 
Protest) of Lisbon, of which six (weekly) issues have appeared — 
editorial department, Rua do Bemformoso 110, second floor, 
management, Rua dos Cardaes de Jesus (!) 69, second floor. I still 
have not looked through the four issues we have received. 

Would you kindly remember me to Mr and Mrs Smirnov.‘ 

Yours ever, 

F. Engels