[London], 14 April 1893 
My dear Guesde, 

I am sending you my short piece* for your May number.” Lafargue has told 
me that you are ill. I wish you a rapid and total recovery. 
We indeed have need of you as our Roubaix deputy. This time we must 

*F, Engels - > Le Socialiste 

succeed in getting a small, compact column |” into the Palais Bourbon which 
will establish once and for all, and without any possibility of mis- 
understanding, the nature of French socialism, so that all the disparate 
elements are obliged to rally around it. 

Only then will the French socialists be able to recover throughout the 
world the standing that is theirs by right, and the important position that they 
must occupy in the general interest. 

Yours sincerely, 

F. Engels