London, 11 January 1893 
Dear Pauli, 
I entirely agree that we should each of us send a contribution to Perkin for 
the Schorlemmer LABORATORY |" as you suggest; but not by any 

means that I should decide upon the sum without any prior agreement or 
knowledge of the actual circumstances. What we should offer depends on 
altogether too many circumstances of which I am completely ignorant. The 
comité in Manchester will surely be sending, or have sent out, some sort of 
appeal indicating roughly the amount to be raised, and an initial list of the 
first subscriptions, etc., etc. After all, one has got to know all this if one is to 
have any idea how high or low one should, or alternately should not, go. 

Would you therefore be so good as to inquire from Perkin what has been 
done in this respect and, if you think fit, ask him to inform me of it so that 
we have some kind of yardstick to go by. 

It’s a disgrace that these university chaps should be such jackasses! I even 
had to put pressure on Roscoe to get him to write the article for Nature.“ And 
the Germans—how proud they could be of Schorlemmer! But he didn’t 
belong to the you-scratch-my-back-I-scratch-yours clique and that’s why, 
now he’s dead, he has to suffer for the fact that he was no Panamite of 
academic learning. Panama left, right and centre, nothing but Panama, “ 
even in academic chemistry! 

Cordial regards to your wife and children, and likewise to yourself, from 

Your old friend, F. 
Engels 

Pumps and her family came to stay over Christmas and the New Year; the 
new baby is a very delicate little thing yet, despite the cold, they all got back 
safe and sound to Ryde.