IN HOTTINGEN-ZURICH 

{London,] 3 March 1886 

Dear Sir, 

Would you kindly send Williams & Norgate, 14 Henrietta St., 
Covent Garden, London—1 copy of Socialism: Utopian etc. together 

@ See this volume, pp. 409-10.-> Ibid., p. 414. 

244, Engels to F. Kelley-Wischnewetzky. 12 March 1886 419 

with bill (incl. postage) in a wrapper— these people applied to me 
(they are my booksellers and, incidentally, publishers, a big firm) and 
I wrote and told them that my things are always to be had from the 
Volksbuchhandlung.* 

Mrs Wischnewetzky played you a rotten trick with her ms.**° For 
upon her insisting it was a matter of life and death, I had to buckle to 
straight away, and now the English translation of Capital has got to 
be done without delay, competition having cropped up (see To- 
Day) °?7 in a menacing form. So if all is not to be lost, I must forge 
ahead and drop everything else, including the Peasant War.?!? The 
rival translation is, by the way, quite shocking, but so much the 
worse if it’s not elbowed out forthwith. 

Kindest regards, 

Yours, 
F.E.