London, 2! March 1891 

Dear Schliter, 

Your letter of the 10th arrived day before yesterday.© Many thanks 
for the information about conditions out there,!9> which is all the 
more welcome in that, journalistic methods being what they are in 
America, one knows that one cannot believe the papers and is, as 
a result, completely at sea. 

Likewise many thanks for the books on silver and MINERAL RESOURCES. 
The one on silver and gold for 1890 will also be of interest to me when 
it appears. But more important to me than anything else, following 
last year’s census, would be the Compendium of the (eleventh) Census 

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* of Capital- Katharina Sorge-° 19 March 

1890 when this comes out; I inherited from Marx the compenpium of 
the 10th census 1880 in 2 volumes, but it wasn’t published until 1883 *; 
not that that matters— this time it’s unlikely to take so long. 

I have no recollection at all of Marx’s second speech, nor can I 
imagine what it might be.'%° If the few pages seem worth bothering 
about, it might be best if you were to print them in the Volkszeitung? 
and let me have a few copies. 

You are quite right; Marx’s critique of the programme‘ will 
achieve its object all right, and it was with this in mind that I published 
it. It seems, however, that the rage it has aroused in ‘influential cir- 
cles’ in the party is terrible to behold; save for Fischer, who was 
pleased about the thing, no one has written to me~— something, I’m 
glad to say, I can quite well put up with. 

If your wife’ should come to Europe, we shall, I trust, have 
a chance to see her here in London, when she may convince herself 
that we are still going strong. 

The Roshers are shortly moving to the Isle of Wight where Percy is 
to manage an agency for his brothers. They left their house the day 
before yesterday and for the time being are staying with his parents, 
a few doors away from me. 

You would oblige me by forwarding the enclosed to Sorge straight 
away. 

Predictably, Julius has not yet completed the removal from 114 
Kentish Town Road‘ (due on the 25th); they have taken it on for 
another six weeks. Ede is busy writing for the Vorwdrts and the Neue 
Xeut and is coming on tremendously. The Avelings are doing well; 
now that The People’s Press has gone phut, you ought to read The 
Daily Chronicle; though the paper is Unionist Liserat. and as such an 
ally of the Torus, it provides the best news concerning the labour move- 
ment over here, and is prepared to accept all reports. The Eight 
Hours movement is going splendidly (cf. Ede’s articles in the Vorwarts 
and ditto in the Neue Zeit)." The Trades Council 1°° has given way; this 
time the demonstration is going to be enormous and, what’s more, of 

* Engels has in mind two censuses: Department of the Interior, Census Office. Compendium of 
the Tenth Census (June 1, 1880)..., Parts I-II, Washington, 1883 and Department of the 
Interior, Census Office. Compendium of the Eleventh Census: 1890, Parts I-IIT, Washington, 
D.C., 1892-1897.-° New Yorker Volkszeitung -° K. Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program- 
me.-4 Anna Schliiter-° Julius Motteler-' the premises of the Sozialdemokrat office - 
& E. Bernstein, ‘Arbeiterschutz - Gesetz - Reformen in England’, Vorwdrts, Nos. 56, 64 
and 67; 7, 17 and 20 March 1891.-" E. Bernstein, ‘Briefe aus England’, Die Neue Zeit, 9. 
Jg- 1890/91, 2. Bd., Nr. 25. 

one mind. For the English, the ceca. 8 Hours agitation is the gateway to 
the socialist movement; once they have swallowed the 8 hours sit for 
everyone, including men (and they are well on the way to doing so), 
they will stick at nothing — they'll have broken with the old middle- 
class FREE-TRADE Viewpoint. 

Warm regards to your wife and yourself from Louise and 

Your 
F.E.