48. F. Engels. To the Editor of the Freiheit

[London,] July 22, 1881

To the Editor of the "Freiheit"

Mr. Norris A. Clowes, the New York Star's correspondent in Ireland, who has been recommended to me from America,^[465] has written as follows:

* "If Herr Most would like to make any statement to the New York Star public, I should be glad to give him the opportunity."*

To which I replied: * "If you wish to enter into communication with Mr. Most, you had better write to the Editor^[3] of the Freiheit, 252 Tottenham Court Road, W. London, who will be able to tell you whether such communication will be possible under present circumstances."*^[466]

I hasten to bring this to your attention.

Yours faithfully,

F. E.

First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVII, 1935

Printed according to the manuscript

Published in English in full for the first time

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Endnotes

[465] Noiris A. Clowes was recommended to Engels by Theodor Friedrich Cuno, a prominent figure in the German workers' movement, in a letter of July 10, 1881. After the Hague Congress of the First International (1872), Cuno emigrated to the USA and took part in the work of the International there.

[3] 3 A reference to the assassination attempt on the Russian Emperor Alexander II made by Antoni Berezowski in Paris in 1867. Berezowski was sentenced to twenty years of hard labour.

[466] An allusion to the fact that at the time Most was kept under arrest (see Note 419).

a Karl Schneidt.— Ed.