ENGELS TO PAUL LAFARGUE” 

AT LE PERREUX 

London, 18 November 1889 

My dear Lafargue, 

Herewith cheque for £20. 

If the editors of your newspapers do not understand foreign 
languages, it would be sensible for them to send out their papers, with- 
out the others (the foreigners) having to reciprocate with what is, for the 
French, incomprehensible gibberish. But I can’t see that this would be 
any reason for the French not to send their papers to people who can 
read them and who are more than willing to make use of them in the 
interests of the French Party. 

The Pumpses are still here and it is hoped that things will be settled 
today. 

Last night I read Laura’s translation of the Sénateur* to some friends. 
Everyone was delighted. That ought to be printed, Aveling said—But 
where? I asked—in the Pall Mall Gazette?—whereupon Aveling’s face 
assumed almost unlimited vertical dimensions. 

Suppose Laura was to set about translating some of Heine’s stuff— 
next time she comes over here she could go to the British Museum, 
compare the translations that have already appeared, and choose some 
different piece—it might be possible to do something with it over here. 
Heine is fashionable at the moment and the translations are so British! 

Give Laura a kiss from Nim and myself—Nim is pretty fit. 

Yours ever, 
FE.