ENGELS TO PAUL LAFARGUE”’ 
AT LE PERREUX 

London, 20 May 1889 

My dear Lafargue, 

I am sending you two newspapers, 1) Reynolds* which, at Tussy’s 
request, printed the circular but without the signatures. This provides you 
with a first-rate pretext for writing to them as follows: “The Commission 
of Organization is very much obliged to you for publishing in your paper 
our circular of convocation for the International Working Men and 
Socialist Congress at Paris to be opened on July 14th, but as you have not 
given any address will you allow me to state, through your columns, that 
all communications from abroad are to be sent to the undersigned Foreign 
Secretary to the Commission. Yours etc. P. Lafargue, Le Perreux, Paris, 
Banlieue, May—etc.,’ or something of that sort. 

2) The Sun, a new radical Weekly, which carries one paragraph, again 
thanks to Tussy’s influence.#?” We shall have to see if there isn’t some 
way in which we can make further use of this newspaper, but the influ- 
ence of the Star might do us a mischief here. 

In Justice, which I shall send you as soon as I have some copies of it, 
Hyndman gives vent to a cry of triumph in the belief that, along with 
the Star, he has deprived us of all means of publicity in London. He says 
that, though you are an amiable and estimable man, you are making a 
fool of yourself, and Bebel, Liebknecht and Bernstein likewise; and he 
hopes that we shall at last desist from our futile intrigues, etc. 

Have you seen the Prolétaire (or Parti ouvrier?) in which the 
Possibilists say they are sure of the Danes?**? Bernstein has written to 
Germany to find out what it’s all about. 

The moment he no longer feels the boulevards under his feet, 
Rochefort insists on making a fool of himself—in Geneva when he quar- 
relled with old Becker, here, by drawing his revolver in Regent Street 
after he had been given a slap in the face. The case is to be heard today 
in the Police Court*%; I shall send you the paper. 

Yours ever, 
FE. 

* Reynold’s Newspaper