CARL STEGMANN? 

122 Regent’s Park Road, N.W., 
London, 6 October 1892 

Dear Sirs, 

In reply to your favour of 2.X, I have in the past frequently complied with 
requests of a similar nature from gentlemen who were quite unknown to me, 
but my experience in these cases has been such that unfortunately I have had 
to make up my mind to discontinue the practice. * 

As a result of an indisposition, moreover, I expect to be tied to my sofa for 
a considerable time to come and hence am in no condition to go searching in 
my library for old, seldom used periodicals. 

* of Capital -° Gertrud and Franziska Kugelmann 

In the circumstances I regret that I cannot oblige you in the way you wish 
and remain, 
Yours very truly, F. 

Engels