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Title: Engels to Florence Kelley-Wischnewetzky, [London], 20 July 1887
Description: Engels returns the reviews of the English Condition of the Working Class: criticism is on the same level everywhere.
Author: Friedrich Engels
Date: 1887-07-20
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/originales/1887-07-20%20Engels%20to%20Florence%20Kelley-Wischnewetzky
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*Letter from Friedrich Engels to Florence Kelley-Wischnewetzky in New York, [London], 20 July 1887. Written in English. Text from: F. A. Sorge (ed.),* Briefe und Auszüge aus Briefen von Joh. Phil. Becker, Jos. Dietzgen, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx u. A. an F. A. Sorge und Andere *(Stuttgart, 1906), p. 272. [Spanish translation](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/1887-07-20%20Engels%20a%20Florence%20Kelley-Wischnewetzky)*

July 20th 1887.

Dear Mrs. Wischnewetzky.

I have returned to you by this mail the whole of the two sets of reviews you sent me, with sincere thanks. They have greatly amused me. — Criticism is almost on the same level everywhere, from Stockholm and London to New York and San Francisco, and since the rapid rise of a shoddy-Bourgeoisie in Russia I am afraid that even there the reviews will soon sink to the common level.

Yours sincerely

F. Engels.