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Title: Engels to Gakins, [London,] 4 July 1871
Description: Engels asks a workman to come at once and look at the leaking cistern of his house.
Author: Friedrich Engels
Date: 1871-07-04
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/originales/1871-07-04%20Engels%20to%20Gakins
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*Letter from Friedrich Engels to Gakins, a London workman or caretaker (so, with a query, the MEGAdigital register of persons), written in London (122 Regent’s Park Road, Engels’s house) on 4 July 1871. The manuscript is kept at the RGASPI (Moscow). Text from the manuscript, [MEGAdigital](https://megadigital.bbaw.de/briefe/detail.xql?id=M2781380) (MEGA² III/18, letter no. 257), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, CC BY-SA 4.0, without the editors’ apparatus. [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/1871-07-04%20Engels%20a%20Gakins)*

122 Regent’s Park Road

4 July 1871.

Sir

Would you please call at once & look at our Cistern—water runs off somewhere so that we have none in a very short time after it is turned off.

Yours truly

F. Engels