ENGELS TO BERTHOLD SPARR 29+ 

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{London,| 12 April 1882 

Dear Sir, 

I am not acquainted either with you or with the Mr K. Schmidt 
you refer to. If you mean Mr K. Schneidt, the anarchist, he will be 
able to get you into the club in Rose Street 79° and obtain assistance 
for you. In view of the way in which the people on the Freiheit have 
laid into the Social-Democratic Party in Germany,? I hardly feel 
called upon to give the adherents of that tendency a helping hand. 
However I do not know which tendency you belong to. The German 
Club, which sides with the great party in Germany, is, as anyone will 
tell you, at 49 Tottenham Street 7°’ and [ find it inconceivable that 
both these clubs should let a fugitive party member starve to death.— 
In view of the great distress brought about among the members of 
the great Social-Democratic Party by police persecution in Germany, 
my resources will scarcely permit me to support, in addition, ad- 

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herents of other, opposing tendencies. If, however, the Tottenham 
Street society is prepared to do something for you, I shall be pleased 
to make a contribution. 

Yours very truly