Letter to Hugo Koch, September 22, 1887

Author(s)	Friedrich Engels
Written	22 September 1887

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 48

ENGELS TO HUGO KOCH

IN LONDON

[London, about 22 September 1887]

Dear Mr Koch,

I have lately wasted so much time replying to anonymous tittle-tattle that I have made it a rule to reply only to such rumours as are substan- tiated by those who spread them. Before I can reply to your query, therefore, I must ask you to tell me:

1. To whom I am alleged to have made the remarks in question, 2. who passed them on to you.

Yours faithfully

F. E.