Letter to Karl Kautsky, August 5, 1887

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 5 August 1887


First published in Aus der Frühzeit des Marxismus. Engels Briefwechsel mit Kautsky, Prag, 1935 and in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVII, Moscow, 1935
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 48


ENGELS TO KARL KAUTSKY

IN VENTNOR

Eastbourne, 5 August 1887

A Dr Joseph Maria Baernreither, Austrian judge and member of the House of Deputies, actual author of a book on English benefit societies?[1] and future ditto of a ditto on ditto Trades Unions, proposes to visit me. Can you tell me anything about this Bärenreuter[2] or Bärenhäuter[3] Many regards.

Your

F. E.

Return Burger-Zeitungs herewith. When do you go home again?

  1. ↑ Engels means J.M. Baernreither's book Die englischen Arbeiterverbande und ihr Recht. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der sozialen Bewegung in der Gegenwart, Bd 1 Tubingen, 1886. The second volume, which was to deal with the English trade unions, was not published.
  2. ↑ Literally, bear rider, the word Reuter having certain pejorative connotations, e.g. formerly also highwayman.
  3. ↑ lazy-bones