London, 13 April 1895 
41 Regent’s Park Road, N. W. 

Dear citizen, 

I am answering at once your request to drop a line to the Bulgarian 
comrades. Being overburdened with work, I answered in the negative the 
requests directed to me by the comrades both on the occasion of 18 March 
and on that of May Day. I also sent a negative reply last week” to the British 
Social-Democratic Federation. “* You will see that if | were to comply with 
your request, I should have to comply with the requests of roughly forty 
groups from ten to twenty different countries, which is 

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more than I can do. Please be so kind as to give the Bulgarian comrades my 
excuses and to tell them that I regret not being able to render them the 
service they are asking for and that in a different situation I should have been 
glad to write something specially for the Bulgarians as the youngest 
followers of socialism. Sincerely yours, 

F. Engels