Letter to the Editors of the New Yorker Volkszeitung, April 1883

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 18 April 1883


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVII, Moscow, 1935
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 24

[London,] April 18, [18]83

122 Regent's Park Road


TO THE EDITORS OF THE N. Y. VOLKSZEITUNG


In your issue of the 15th you print my telegram to Sorge as though it were addressed to you.[1]

In the issue of the 17th you make me say in my telegram to you that Marx died in Argenteuil.

It is not our custom over here to take liberties of this kind with the names of other persons or to countenance such things if they are done to ourselves.

You have thus made it impossible for me to send you any further reports.

If you ever make similar misuse of my name in your paper again, I shall be compelled to request my old friend Sorge to announce that this was an outright falsification on your part.


Yours very truly,

F. E.

  1. ↑ See an item, "London, 14. März, 1883" in the New Yorker Volkszeitung, No. 64, March 15, 1883.— Ed