ENGELS TO PYOTR LAVROV‘?! 

[London,] 20 October 1885 

My dear Lavrov, 

Greatly to my annoyance I am unable to help you with sources for 
a history of Chartism. *°? All my papers, books, journals, etc., which 
date back to that period went astray during the upheavals of 1848-49. 
The chief source, The Northern Star, is nowhere to be found, even in the 
north of England (Harney, its former editor-in-chief, is seeking in 
vain to get hold of a set). What the bourgeois have written on the sub- 
ject is for the most part false; nor have I ever concerned myself with 
such literature. It’s unfortunate, for if Harney doesn’t write his 
memoirs, the history of the first great workers’ party will be lost 
for ever. *°4 

Yours ever and with regret,