Letter to Gabriel Deville, July 8, 1884

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 8 July 1884


First published abridged in: M. Dommanget, L'introduction du marxisme en France, Lausanne, 1969 and in full in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 50, Moscow, 1981
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 47


ENGELS TO GABRIEL DEVILLE

IN PARIS

London, 8 July 1884

My dear Citizen Deville,

Thank you for sending me your lectures ' 7 9 — the last one reached me yesterday and I have not yet had time to read it. I have no doubt that it is no less excellent than its predecessors. I shall suggest to our friends that they translate them into German and publish them in the same way as you are doing in Paris; it's precisely what we need for propaganda just now.

Would you be so kind as to pass on the enclosed note to Lafargue without Mme Lafargue's knowledge? He'll tell you the reason for this — perfectly innocent, by the way.

Yours ever,

F. Engels