[London,] 20 May 1875 

[Draft] 

As to your own business, I am sorry I am not in position to 
become security for anybody. I have done it once and the 
experience I made then has been such that I shall never repeat 
the act. If it was in my power to assist you in any other way I 
should be glad to do it, but at present I do not see any possibility 
of being useful to you. 

[Engels’ later note, in German, on the envelope of Coleman’s letter] 

Coleman, [{18]75. McDonnell’s follower at the time of the 
International.