London, 24 April 1883 

Dear Sorge, 

Enclosed a line or two for Gartman from his friend Brocher, a mud- 
dle-headed anarchist but a sterling chap. Perhaps you would be good 
enough to send it on. 

The Volkszeitung has perpetrated follies enough, though still not as ma- 
ny as I expected. Nevertheless they have all contributed their share, 
Schewitsch, Cuno, Douai, Hepner. Here was a quartet performed 
by would-be know-alls who, Jointly AND SEVERALLY, knew damned 
little. However I felt impelled to write a line to the editors, * pointing 
out that they had printed my telegram to you” as though it had been 
addressed to them and had, in my second to them,‘ inserted a false state- 
ment to the effect that Marx had died in Argenteuil.? We did not, 
I told them, stand for that sort of thing over here; as a result they had 
@ F, Engels, ‘To the Editors of the Mew Yorker Volkszeitung’ (18 April 1883).-° of 14 

March 1883-° F. Engels, ‘To the New Yorker Volkszeitung’ (16 March 1883). - 
4 Marx died in London. 

made it impossible for me to send them any further reports and, in the 
event of their again venturing to make such misuse of my name, 
I should be compelled to ask you to announce at once in public that the 
whole thing was a falsification on their part. Those gentlemen ought 
to confine their Yankee numsuc to themselves. Besides, the Americans 
are far more honest; according to the Volkszeitung, I was sent a tele- 
gram ? which I never received and I was almost inclined to believe 
that the gentlemen on the Volkszeitung had pocketed the money for 
themselves. Now Van Patten writes to’say that there hadn’t been any 
money in the first place. I am now compelled to make this publicly 
known over here, for otherwise it would be said that I had withheld 
the telegram from the Paris press and the Sozzaldemokrat. The answer 
re Most, which I sent Van Patten in response to his enquiry,* will 
doubtless have already been published by him by the time this ar- 
rilves. 

At the Copenhagen Congress '* it was resolved that Liebknecht’s 
and Bebel’s trip to America should take place next spring. ?° It has to 
do with money for the election campaign in 1884-85. (All this is be- 
tween ourselves.) Liebknecht has proposed to Tussy that she should ac- 
company him as his secretary and she is very keen to go; so it might 
easily be that you see her there before long. Generally speaking we 
have not made any plans yet. The literary work (third edition, 
Volume I of Capital, editing of Volume II, the ms. of which has 
been found though as yet there is no knowing to what extent it is 
ready for printing or requires supplementing, !’ biography based 
on the enormous correspondence, *° etc.) takes up all my spare 
time, besides which Tussy has a mass of literary ENGAGEMENTS to get 
through. 

You are, of course, fully entitled to print the passages on Henry 
George in Marx’s letters.°! The question is, however, whether it 
might not be better to wait until I am able to sort out for you the 
marginal notes made by Marx in his copy of George’s book and then 
do the whole lot at one go. Résumés of the kind Marx provides, theo- 
retically acute but brief and unaccompanied by examples, are surely 
still above the head of your average American and after all there is no 
hurry. I shall take a closer look at the things as soon as I have time. If, 
in the meanwhile, you send me a copy of the relevant passage in 
Marx’s letter, it will make the job simpler. 

 See this volume, pp. 9-11.-> Ibid., p. 42. 

Pamphlet herewith. I have only received a few copies myself; the 
2nd edition is in the press.?°> Does Weydemeyer know English now? *? 
His earlier translations were grammatically and stylistically quite un- 
printable; they would have made us look appalling asses and at the 
same time exposed the author to ridicule. Anyhow I should like to see 
a specimen. 

Your 
F.E.