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Title: Engels to James Knowles, [London,] 20 April 1883 (draft)
Description: Draft: Engels's conditions for giving The Nineteenth Century the refusal of his manuscript, and a postscript: he is no doctor but a retired cotton-spinner.
Author: Friedrich Engels
Date: 1883-04-20
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/originales/1883-04-20%20Engels%20to%20James%20Knowles
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*Friedrich Engels to James Knowles in London, [London,] 20 April 1883; draft. Manuscript preserved at the IISG (Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels Papers, inv. K 786-787), transcribed from the digital facsimile by the Escuela de marxismo, 2026 (double reading and collation with the image). Written in English. Diplomatic transcription: spelling, capitals and punctuation as in the manuscript; deletions as ~~text~~ where legible, otherwise ~~[ilegible]~~; interlinear additions inserted where marked, with a note; [?] after an uncertain reading; [ilegible] for an illegible word. [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/1883-04-20%20Engels%20a%20James%20Knowles)*

Dr Sir 20/4/83.

If we *do* find the Ms in question I shall be glad to give you the refusal of it, on two conditions self-understood[^t1] ~~in themselves~~ but think I may as well mention 1/ that in case of refusal you do not communicate it to anybody else, & 2/ that in case you print it, it appears as a separate article out of all connection with any other.

Yours faithfully

F. E.

Allow me to say that I am no „Dr" but a retired Cotton-Spinner.

[^t1]: «conditions» and «self-understood» are encircled and marked for transposition (“on two self-understood conditions”).