62. F. Engels. To the Editors of the New Yorker Volkszeitung

[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⁽¹⁾ as though it were addressed to you!⁽²⁾

In the issue of the 17th you make me say in my telegram to you that Marx died in Argenteuil.⁽³⁾

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.

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

Printed according to the manuscript

Published in English for the first time

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Endnotes

(1) Engels is referring to his telegram to Friedrich Adolf Sorge of March 14, 1883 (see present edition, Vol. 46).— Ed

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

(3) See this volume, p. 462.— Ed.