London, 21 March 1891 
Dear Sorge, 

Have shown your letter re Miss Anna’ to our friends and promptly 
complied with your instructions. Enclosed you will find a brief note to 
the same in which she is hauled over the coals and notified that the 
letters she has written hitherto, with their repeated requests for 
money, have fallen on stony ground. I have been asked to tell you 

* fell flat-> Stanistaw Padlewski 

that people in this country are of the opinion that enough has now 
been done for her both over here and out there, that she must now ar- 
range for her own advancement and that this could best be achieved 
out in the country, doing agricultural work such as she is used to. To 
this I replied that that sort of thing would be possible only in a district 
where she could get along without any English, but that since such 
districts did exist out there, the thing was not impossible. At all 
events, New York and sea-ports generally would not appear to be at 
all the right terrain for a female of her ilk and if she is to achieve any- 
thing, she must go so far away as to make it very difficult for her to 
come back again. 

In the meantime you will also have had my letter* with a money 
order for ten pounds and will, under the circumstances, have been 
able to put it to good use. Between ourselves, I believe that, should 
need arise, I could again raise a like amount, but that would prob- 

ably be that. I have also been asked to request you people to be strict 
in regard to money matters so that the person concerned may finally 
realise that this idling can’t go on for ever. 

Besides the Vienna Arbeiter-Zeitung I am also sending you today 
a Volks-Tribüne and Figaro (Paris meetinc), and an Italian translation 
of the Manifesto.” The People’s Press and Commonweal have both gone 
phut. 

I do not yet know whether or not I shall reply to the Vorwaris arti- 
cle,? but I am beginning to incline towards your view.'*? ‘There are 
a few points I really ought to touch on; however, it might be possible to 
do so in some other way. 

I am having to arrange for new editions and/or new introductions 
to 1. The Civil War in France,° 2. Marx’s Wage Labour and Capital 
and 3. Entwicklung des Sozialismus‘*; the German party is to bring 
them out in editions of 10,000 copies. 

My reply to Brentano'?* will be published by Meissner in about 
8 or 10 days’ time. You shall have it straight away. 

Then I have a new edition of The Origin of the Family, etc. to see to 

* See this volume, pp. 137-39.-> I/ Manifesto del Partito Comunista 1847, Milan, 
1891.-° the third German edition -* the first separate German edition-* the fourth 
German edition of Socialism: Utopian and Scientific-' F. Engels, In the Case of Brentano 
Versus Marx.- the fourth German edition of The Origin of the Family, Private Property 
and the State 

(5,000 sold!), after which, however, I shall apply myself inexorably 
and unremittingly to Volume III.* 

Sam Moore arrived in Liverpool the day before yesterday and will 
probably be here in about a week’s time. At Christmas he caught 
some horrible disease from which, however, he has completely recov- 
ered. 

I trust your wife ° is her old self once more. Warmest regards to her 
and to you. 

Your 
F.E.