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Letter to Rudolf Seiffert, between January 15 and 20, 1873

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 15 January 1873


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 50, Moscow, 1981
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44


ENGELS TO RUDOLF SEIFFERT[1]

IN LEIPZIG

[London, between 15 and 20 January 1873]

31 December [1872]—letter to Liebknecht[2] and Hepner.[3]

6 January [1873] (Fink) a few items of printed matter, No. 38 of International Herald, etc.

7 " (Fink) registered letter with article on Prussia.[4]

15 " (ditto) again International Herald, 2 Nos., and other printed matter.

Hope everything arrived safely.

  1. ↑ This letter has survived as a scrap pasted by Seiffert onto his letter to Engels of 21 January 1873, in which he acknowledged receipt of all materials posted by Engels to Der Volksstaat.
  2. ↑ This letter by Engels has not been found.
  3. ↑ Probably a reference to Engels' letter to Adolf Hepner of 30 December 1872, which has not survived in its entirety (see this volume, pp. 462-63).
  4. ↑ F. Engels, 'The "Crisis" in Prussia'.