AT LE PERREUX 
London, 5 March 1892 

My dear Laura, 

Today I can do no more than fulfil my promise to Paul and send 
you the enclosed cheque for the rent--£15— made out in your 
name, so that Paul’s absence need not cause any delay. I have re- 
ceived your letter and shall reply in a few days—I am overwhelmed 
with work — Sonnenschein has by some blunder sent the rough draft 
of Edward’s translation of my Entwicklung des Sozialismus* to press 
and now all the work of revising that rough draft falls upon me, and 
of course has to be done quick.— Then Percy was here all week, left 
yesterday, then other interferences with work— today Tussy has 

* F. Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. 

Engels to Kautsky. 5 March 1892 ; 367 

gone on Union work to Plymouth and Edward will be all day with 
us, so I must get this letter closed and off before he comes. 

I am glad of the news about the ‘Daily’* and this time it may turn 
out a success, if our friends take the proper precautions not to be 
turned out again the very moment the paper begins to pay.*?* But 
things are better now, there is a power behind them now and that 
makes a difference —only they ought to take care to secure their posi- 
tion in the paper for all that. 

I should be glad if Paul would let me know something of the posi- 
tion of the various socialist and ‘Auch-Sozialisten’ groups in the 
Chamber—the Blanquists, Possibilists,? Millerand lot,? and the 
ex-Boulangists. I see in yesterday’s Intransigeant that Paul and Ferroul 
attended a meeting composed chiefly of the Blanguist Boulangists, 
and, if he works together with them, it’s 100 to 1 that Hyndman will 
attack them in Justice, and anyhow the subject is sure to be discussed 
here and interpellations to come to me—so I ought to be prepared! 

In my next you will also very probably receive a dunning letter 
from Louise for more contributions to the Arbeiterinnen-Zeitung. 

Love to all your numerous family 

Ever yours, 
F.E.