London, 19 June 1883 
122 Regent’s Park Road, N.W. 

Dear Sir, 

I was very pleased to receive your fine Italian translation of my So- 
cialism: Utopian and Scientific.’?° 1 have been through it and I have 
suggested minor alterations in a number of places, although I am dif- 
fident and aware that my Italian is imperfect and that I am out of 
practice. I hope that despite this you can understand the translation 
(into Italian or French) of the additions to the first German edition 
which I have inserted at the corresponding points in your manu- 
script. 

I am enclosing a copy of the recently published German edition, 
and a copy of the 2nd edition, which is going to press at the moment, 
will follow.25 I am sorry that the translation could not have been 

made from the German text, since Italian is much better suited than 
French to the dialectical mode of presentation. 

Thank you for your kind offer to send me several copies of the 
translation; six, or at most a dozen, will be enough. 

Yours respectfully, 
Fred. Engels 

I am sending by the midday post a registered parcel containing 
1) your manuscript, 
2) the copy of the German edition.