ENGELS TO FLORENCE KELLEY-WISCHNEWETZKY ?’ 

London, 12 March 1886 

Dear Mrs Wischnewetzky, 

Deep buried as I am in the English Capital, I have only the time 
to write a few lines in haste. It did not require all your exposition of 
the circumstances to convince me that you were perfectly innocent of 
what had been done in America with your translation.’ The thing is 
done and can’t be helped, though we both are convinced that it was 
a mistake.‘ 

2a Social Democratic bookshop in Zurich-? the English translation of 
Engels’ The Condition of the Working-Class in England-‘ See this volume, pp. 415-16. 

I thank you for pointing out to me a passage in the appendix °°? 
which indeed is far from clear. The gradation from the Polish Jew to 
the Hamburger, and from the Hamburger again to the Manchester 
merchant does not at all come out to the front. So I have tried to alter 
it in a way which may meet both your and my own objection to it 
and hope I have succeeded. 

And now I cannot conclude without expressing to you my most 
sincere thanks to you for the very great trouble you have taken to re- 
vive, in English, a book of mine which is half-forgotten in the original 
German. 

Ever at your service as far as my time and powers allow, believe 
me, dear Mrs Wischnewetzky 

Yours very faithfully, 
F. Engels 

The dedication to the English working men should be left out.3°° 
It has no meaning to-day.