[Draft] 
[London, 11 April 1877] 

Dear Liebknecht, 

I have today received your letter of the 9th. It’s the same old 
story. First you make all kinds of promises, whereupon exactly 
quite the opposite happens and then, if I complain, I hear nothing 
from you for a fortnight and I’m told that you had too much to 
do and would I kindly spare you my unnecessary objurgations. Ir 
IS ADDING INSULT To Injury.* So often has this comedy been played that 
I refuse to tolerate another performance. 

My letter of yesterday, which will be in Leipzig first thing 
tomorrow morning, will get to you on 13 Friday,’ and I expect an 
immediate reply to my questions. My reply to yours will depend 
on your reply to these, i.e. if by then there is any need at all for a 
reply from me. 

If, by the evening of 17 Tuesday, I have had no reply, or no 
adequate one, from you, I shall no longer be able to show you any 

a Phaedrus, Fables (‘The Bald Man and the Fly’). 

consideration and shall myself see to it that such articles ° of mine 
as remain are not mismanaged as hitherto. In which case it might 
very well happen that, in the course of things, I shall sooner or 
later find it necessary to air the whole business in public. 

Your 
E.