Notes

Residual editorial notes

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[17] Engels wrote this letter on a postcard. It also has the address in Engels’ handwriting: Herrn Dr. L. Kugelmann, Warmbüchenstr. 20.I. Hannover, Germany.

[35] The full text of this letter was first published in English in: F. Engels and Paul and Laura Lafargue, Correspondence, Vol. 3, 1891-1895. Moscow, 1963.

[40] Engels wrote this letter on a postcard which likewise bears the address inscribed with his own hand: F.A. Sorge, Esq., Hoboken, N.J., U.S. America.

[64] Engels wrote this letter in two languages, English and Spanish.

[65] The envelope of this letter exists on which Engels wrote the address: An das sozialdemokratische Parteisekretariat, Katzbachstr. 9, Berlin S. W, Germany.

[67] Apparently an allusion to Louise Kautsky’s cooperation with the Vienna-published newspaper Arbeiterinnen-Zeitung. In his letter to Laura Lafargue of 2 October 1891 (see present edition, Vol. 49, p. 251) on the forthcoming release of the newspaper’s first number, Engels described it ‘a hyaena paper’. The epithet ‘hyaena is from Schiller’s poem The Song of the Bell m which the poet compares revolutionary women to hyenas.

[78] This is in reply to Charles Bonnier’s letter to Engels of 2 December 1892 in which he protested against the decision of the Berlin Congress of the German Social-Democratic Party (see Note 51) to refrain from work stoppages on 1 May 1893 and have May Day celebrations on the evening of the same day.

[80] A. Bebel’s article ‘Die Maifeier und ihre Bedeutung’ published by the journal Die Neue Zeit, Bd. 1, No. 14, Stuttgart, 1892-93.

[89] The Fourth International Glass Workers’ Congress took place in London on 5-9 July 1892. An account of its proceedings was released in a separate edition the same year: The Fourth Report of the International Union of Glass Workers and Report of the Third International Congress, London, 1892.

[90] On 27 November 1892 the Social-Democratic group in the Reichstag cabled a message of greetings to Engels on the occasion of his birthday. On behalf of the group the telegram was signed by August Bebel, Heinrich Meister and Paul Singer.

[95] This letter, written by Louise Kautsky at the request of Engels, was in reply to Ellenbogens letter of 2 December 1892 in which he said he had sent Engels his pamphlet on the history of the Workers’ Educational Society in one of Vienna’s districts. Ellenbogen added he was sending a copy from the first edition that had been confiscated by the Austrian police. The envelope of the former letter has the address inscribed on it: ‘Dr. W. Ellenbogen. IX Bergstrasse 18. Vienna. Austria’ ....

[96] The envelope of this letter has likewise been preserved, with the inscription written by Engels: ‘Monsieur Pierre Lavroff, 328, rue St. Jacques, Paris, France’.

[103] A fragment of this letter was first published in English in: The Labour Monthly, L., 1934, No. 10.

[107] The editors of the present edition do not have at their disposal the original of Engels’ letter to Karl Henckell. The phrase quoted here came from the notes on the poem ‘The Steam-King’ by E.P Mead, an English workman and poet; these verses were published in a collection of revolutionary poetry, Das Buch der Freiheit, published in Berlin in December 1893. This edition was sponsored by the Social-Democratic group in the Reichstag. In the course of his work K. Henckell asked Engels on 2 November 1892 for verses and songs that could be included into the collection and also for the texts of his letters to be sent to the English poets Swinburne and W. Morris. Engels must have responded favourably to Henckell’s request. Besides the verses of Swinburne, Morris, Goethe, Heine, Schiller, Byron, Mickiewicz and the Russian poets Pushkin, Ryleyev and Nekrasov, the anthology included the poem ‘The Steam-King’ which Engels had translated into German (see present edition, Vol. 6, pp. 474-77) and the old Danish folk song ‘Herr Tidman’, also translated by Engels (see present edition, Vol. 20 pp. 34-35).

[110] Engels wrote the following lines on a postcard. He also wrote the address: Mrs. Mendelson 27, Stonor Road, West Kensington, W.

[113] An abridged version of this letter in English was first published in: The Labour Monthly, L., 1934, No. 12.

[119] An excerpt from this letter was first published in English in: Marx, K., Engels, F. Selected Correspondence. M., F.L.P.H., 1955.

[135] Engels wrote this letter on a postcard to the following address penned with his own hand: Sig. Filippo Turati, Portici Galleria V.E. 23, Milano, Italy.

[164] An excerpt from this letter was first published in English in the book: Marx, K., and Engels, F. Correspondence 1846-1895. A Selection with Commentary and Notes. Translated and edited by Dona Torr. Martin Lawrence (1934). The envelope of this letter has the following address which Engels wrote with his own hand: Monsieur N.F Danielson, 8 grande rue de Ecuries, logis No. 7, Saint-Petersbourg, Russia.

[173-] This letter was first published in English in F. Engels — P. et L. Lafargue. Correspondence. T.3. (1891-1895), Paris, Ed. Sociales, 1959.

[174] The full text of this letter is in reply to the inquiry of the London firm Thomas Cook & Son which asked Engels for a letter of recommendation for L. Freyberger who wanted to open an account with this firm.

[176] This letter was written on a postcard with the following address penned by Engels: W. Liebknecht Esq., 160, Kantstrasse, Charlottenburg-Berlin, Germany.

[177] This letter was written on a postcard, with the address inscribed by Engels: Sigr. avv. Filippo Turati, Portici Galleria V.E. 23, Milano, Italy.

[179] This letter was first published in English in full in: Science and Society, N.Y., 1938. Vol. 11, No. 3.

[184] The full text of this letter in English was first published in Marx K., Engels F., Letters to Americans. 1848-1895- A Selection. New York, International Publishers, 1953.

[186] An excerpt from this letter was first published in English in: The Labour Monthly, L., 1934, No. 12; the full text in English appeared in: Science and Society, N.Y., 1938, Vol. 11, No. 3.

[191] Engels wrote the draft of his reply on an empty page of M.R. Cotar’s letter of 21 March 1893. Cotar asked for permission to translate Volume II of Das Kapital into French and requested assistance in this undertaking.

[192] On the envelope of this letter Engels wrote the following address: G.W. Lamplugh Esq., Ballafurt, Port Erin, Isle of Man. The full text of this letter was first published in English in Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin. Facsimiles. M., 1939.

[193] An excerpt from this letter was first published in English in: Marx K., Engels F., On Literature and Art, Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1976.

[221] On the envelope of this letter Engels inscribed the following address: Monsieur Stojan Nokoff, Chemin de la Roseraie 8, Genève, Switzerland.

[230] The Belgian Workers’ Party was founded in Brussels on 5 April 1885 on the basis of the Belgian Socialist Party formed in 1879. The Workers’ Party likewise comprised other workers’ organisations — trade unions, cooperatives, etc. The Party crusaded for economic demands of the working class and for universal suffrage; it led the strike action of the proletariat.

[234] This letter was first published in English with deletions in: K. Marx and F. Engels, Correspondence 1846-1895. A Selection with Commentary and Notes. London, Martin Lawrence, 1934; and in full in: K. Marx and F. Engels, Selected Correspondence, F.L.P.H. Moscow, 1955.

[237] R. Meyer gave a ‘truncated version’ of this letter for publication; the end of the letter is missing.

[242] On the envelope of this letter Engels wrote the following address: ‘Sigr. Filippo Turati, Portici Galleria VE. 23, Milano, Italy’. Turati made this note on the envelope; ‘Engels, Proprietà. opere Marx’: the few words that followed are illegible.

[251] The text of this letter was written on a post card. Engels indicated his whereabouts: Frau Hermann Engels aus Barmen (Engelskirchen), Hotel Bellevue, St. Moritz Bad Engadin.

[253] Engels wrote this letter on a form that had A. Bebel’s address printed on it.

[258] After the stormy anti-Austrian demonstrations of the summer of 1893 at which the protesters demanded universal suffrage, the Taafe government imposed a state of emergency in the Prague district on 12 September 1893. It banned all Radical-Progressist and Social-Democratic publications.

[281] The present letter was first published in English in K. Marx and F. Engels, Correspondence 1846-1895. A Selection with Commentary and Notes. London, Martin Lawrence, 1934.

[287] Engels sketched the draft of his reply to Ferdinand Wolff on the reverse side of Wolff’s letter received late in October 1893 and containing innuendoes and threats against Engels. Ignorant as he was of Wolff’s mental illness, Engels wrote a letter of reply, but it is not known whether it was ever sent. Visiting Wolff shortly afterwards, Engels could see at first hand his grave condition. See this volume, pp.222-23, 243.

[296] Engels sent this letter with the cheque to E Sorge’s address in Hoboken; see this volume, pp. 229.

[297-] Engels indicated the following address on the envelope: Frau Liebknecht, Kantstr. 160, Charlotenburg/Berlin (Germany).

[302] This letter was written on a postcard. Engels indicated the following address: H. Schlüter Esq., 936 Washington St., Hoboken, N.J., US America.

[306] Engels wrote the draft of the reply on the reverse side of the letter which Paul Arndt had sent on 4 December 1893.

[324] Engels wrote the following address on the envelope: G.W. Lamplugh Esq., Geological Survey, 28 Jermyn St., S.W.

[325-] Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy was first published under the pen name Democritus Junior in 1621. George William Lamplugh sent a copy of the ninth edition published in London in 1800.

[326] Engels wrote the draft of his reply on the reverse side of Henri Ravé’s letter of 1 January 1894.

[328] Engels wrote these lines in the left margin of Albert Delon’s letter of 19 January 1894 in which the sender asked for permission to translate Volume II of Das Kapital into French. The whereabouts of Engels’ letter to A. Delon is not known.

[329] Engels replies to W Borgius’ letter of 19 January 1894. The journal Der sozialistische Akedemiker (No. 20, 1895) published this reply for the first time together with the addressee’s name; the subsequent publications gave the wrong name, Heinz Starkenburg. The condensed English version of the letter was first published in: K. Marx, F. Engels, V.I. Lenin, On the Theory of Marxism, International Publishers, New York, [1948].

[338] This letter was written on a postcard. Engels indicated the following address: Ed. Bernstein Esq., 50 Highgate Road, London, N.W.

[348] The draft of this letter, which Engels wrote on the back side of Panait Musoiu’s letter of 24 February 1894, is extant. The texts of the draft and the letter are identical. Musoiu told Engels he had translated into Roumanian Socialism: Utopian and Scientific and The Manifesto of the Communist Party. He asked Engels to write a preface to a second edition of these works.

[351] An excerpt from this letter was first published in English in K. Marx, E Engels, V.I. Lenin, Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism. International Publishers, New York, 1972.

[359] Engels wrote the following address on the envelope that still remains: Sig. aw° Filippo Turati, Portici Galleria VE. 23, Milano, Italy.

[362] Probably a reference to the newspaper La Réveil Ouvrier, the organ of the local organisation of the French Workers’ Party in Calais.

[365] Engels wrote the following address on the envelope: Sig. aw° Filippo Turati, Portici Galeria VE. 23, Milano, Italy. The MS has the mark made by Turati: R 17/5.

[366] First published in English in: The Socialist Review (London), 1908, II I-VII I, p. 32 (abridged).

[369] First published in English in: K. Marx and F. Engels, On Britain. Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1953 (abridged).

[379] Apparently Engels wrote this letter after Hellmut von Gerlach had visited him late in June 1893 on Major Otto Wachs’ recommendation.

[385] First published in English in K. Marx and F. Engels, On the United States, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1979 (abridged).

[387] F. Turati wrote, on this letter with his own hand: ‘Scritto a Treves. R[isposto] 2./8./94. Tornato a rispondere 678794/ (‘Written in Treves. Replied 2787947. In receipt of reply a new letter was written 6./8./94.’)

[397] In his letter of 15 August 1894, Thomas Clark asked Engels if he could vouch for Stanislaw Mendelson ‘as a yearly tenant’.

[399] Engels had stayed in Milan for three months in 1841.

[410] First published in English in K. Marx and F. Engels, On Colonialism. Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1959 (abridged).

[414] This letter was written on a postcard on which Engels indicated the following address: ‘Herrn Carl Hirsch, Red. der Rheinischen Zeitung, Hämmergasse 37, Köln, Germany.’

[415] This letter was written on a postcard on which Engels indicated the address: ‘Mrs. Aveling, 7 Gray’s Inn Square, W.C.’

[417] First published in English in an abridged form in K. Marx and F. Engels, Correspondence. 1846-1895. A Selection with Commentary and Notes. London, Lawrence, 1934.

[422] This letter was written on a postcard on which Engels indicated the following address: Ed. Bernstein Esq., 50, Highgate Road, N.W.

[423] Engels wrote this letter on a postcard on which he indicated the following address: Ed. Bernstein Esq., 29, Red Lion Square, W.C.

[444] This letter was written on a postcard, with the following address: Monsieur Pierre Lavroff, 328, rue Saint Jacques, Paris - France.

[446] Engels indicated the following address on the postcard on which the letter was written: G.W Lamplugh Esq., 28 Jermin St., S.W.

[448] The text of this letter without the opening greeting. The initial phrase is published in the present edition, Vol. 27, under the title ‘Message of Greetings to the Austrian Workers on the Daily Publication of the Arbeiter-Zeitung.

[468] A reference to the note written by Louise Freyberger (Kautsky)—’Aus den Trades-Unions’—and published by Die Arbeiter-Zeitung (No. 15, 15 January 1895; signed: K.L.); also, to the anonymous report England, published by the same newspaper on 5 January 1895 (No. 5) in the feature Aus den Organisationen.

[472] An English excerpt from this letter was first published in Marx and Engels on Malthus. Edited by Ronald L. Meek, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1953.

[473] Engels wrote this letter on a postcard with the following address: Herrn Dr. L. Kugelmann, 20 BI Warmbüchenstr., Hannover, Germany.

[502] Engels indicated the following address on the envelope of this letter: Herren Dr. W. Ellenbogen. IX Wasagasse 22. Wien.

[503] Engels wrote these lines on a paper chit, and he gave the following address: Madame Beldinsky, 2, Regent’s Square, W.C.

[514] Louis Napoleon Bonaparte used the decision by the French National Assembly in May 1850 to abrogate universal suffrage, to seize power and impose dictatorial rule. Following the coup d’état of December 1851 he re-instituted universal suffrage in an election to the Legislative Corps.

[515] Engels indicated the following address on the envelope: Julius Motteler Esq., 30, Hugo Road, Tufnell Park, N.

[519] Stoicism—a philosophical system founded by Zeno and current in Ancient Greece between the late fourth century B.C. and the sixth century B.C. The Stoics believed that all events were the result of divine will and that therefore man should be calmly accepting and free from passion, grief or joy.

[521] In his letter to Engels on 20 February 1895, G. Plekhanov called N. Danielson a ‘reactionary and Utopian, all in one’.

[533] The English text of this letter was first published in K. Marx and F. Engels, Selected Correspondence, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965.

[543] This is in reply to Carl Hackenberg’s letter to Engels of 8 March 1895 in which he asked for more information about the activities of Hermann Becker, a German lawyer and journalist, in 1848-50; C. Hackenberg planned to write a biography of H. Becker. Probably unable to verify data on the events 45 years ago, Engels allowed himself some inaccuracies in his reply.

[560] Wilhelm Liebknechts speech in the Reichstag on 2 March 1895 during the debates on the budget committee s report on appropriations for the maintenance of the army. Liebknecht spoke out for a dissolution of the regular army and setting up instead militia-type forces after the Swiss model.

[571] The draft of this letter was written on the blank part of a page of Harry Quelch’s letter to Engels of 1 April 1895- H. Quelch asked Engels for an interview about the contemporary condition of the working class in the May issue of the newspaper Justice.

[572] An English excerpt from this letter was first published in: K. Marx, Selected Works. In two volumes. Vol. 2, New York, 1936. The full English text of the letter appeared in Frederick Engels, Paul and Laura Lafargue. Correspondence, Vol. 3, 1891-95, Moscow, [1963].

[581] This letter was first published in English in: K. Marx, F. Engels, Letters on ‘Capital’, London, 1983.

[597] This is in reply to the message from Hugo Heller, a bookseller in Vienna, in which he informed Engels that a Vienna publisher, Ignaz Brand, had sent him the Czech translation of Marx’s Wage Labour and Capital. Engels wrote this letter on a postcard, indicating the following address: Herrn Ignaz Brand Exped. Wiener Volksbuchhandlung VI, Gumpendorferstraße 8. Wien, Austria.

[599] Engels had written the rough copy of this letter somewhat earlier, on 12 May 1895.

[604] Engels wrote this letter on a postcard and gave the following address: Herrn Richard Fischer, Buchhandlung des Vorwärts, Beuthstr. 2, Berlin, Germany.

[612] Engels wrote these lines on a postcard showing a view of the Eastbourne beach. Laura Lafargue wrote the following address on this card: Monsieur Paul Lafargue, Le Perreux, Siene, France.

[613] Engels wrote this letter on a postcard to the following address which he indicated on it: Herrn Richard Fischer, Buchhdlg. des Vorwärts, Beuthstr. 2, Berlin S.W. 19; Germany.

[615] Engels wrote these lines on a postcard and indicated the following address: Ed. Bernstein, Esq., 29, Red Lion Square, W.C. London.

[616] Engels wrote this letter on a postcard to the following address: Mrs. Aveling, Greenstreet Green, near Chislehurst, Kent.

[619] This letter was written on a postcard with a view of Eastbourne. Engels gave the following address: Sig. Filippo Turati, Portici Galleria V.E. 23, Milano, Italy.

[621] This letter, discovered in the late 1970s in the National Archives of Classic German Literature at Weimar, opens the correspondence of Engels with Arnold Ruge, a German journalist. Their first meeting took place in late March 1842 in Berlin where Engels was doing his military service. The present letter sheds additional light on Engels’ little-known article on Dante which Engels mentioned in his second letter to Ruge on 15 June 1842 (see present edition, Vol. 2, p. 543), an article which has not survived.

[625] Marx — at the time editor of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung—wrote this letter in reply to Friedrich Kapp, a German National-Liberal, who was copperating with the newspaper, about the delay in the payment of royalties that were due to him. Acting on Marx’s advice, on 11 December 1848 Kapp presented a promissory note to the newspaper, but it was not paid. Later Marx reimbursed the required sum to him.

[627] This letter was first published in the Catalogue de la vente a l’Hôtel Drouot le 16 novembre 1893 with a note attached to it that Marx had addressed the letter to ‘son collaborateur et secrétaire Reinländer’. It must have been George Friedrich Rheinländer, a German salesman in 1850s-1860s, who then emigrated to London.

[628] The present letter was addressed to Philip Stephen King, the owner of a London bookselling firm that dealt in official government publications, draft bills, statistical reports and communications from academic and state institutions overseas. In the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s Marx approached King on several occasions with a request to send reference literature to him (see also present edition, Vols. 42, 43).

[631] This document is reproduced from the copy made by E. Bernstein and Louise Freyberger (Mrs. Kautsky), with the following postscript which A. Bebel wrote on the envelope: ‘The letter with codicils, dated 14 November 1894, to Engels’ Testament. Lay in the drawer of Engels’ desk’.

[632] This letter is a limerick jotted down by an unknown person. Engels signed his name with a pencil. First published in English in the German edition of the works of Marx and Engels: K. Marx, F. Engels, Werke, Bd. 38. Berlin, 1968.

[633] These lines were written by Louise Kautsky (Freyberger) on a postcard. Engels wrote the following address: Mrs. Natalie Liebknecht, 160, Kantstraße, Charlottenburg Berlin.

[635] Hermann Engels wrote this draft with a pencil on the back of L. Siebold’s letter to F. Engels of 22 July 1895. This letter must have been rewritten in a fair copy by Louise Freyberger (Mrs. Kautsky) and sent to L. Siebold.