Letter (draft, undated) from Friedrich Engels to Charles Rosher, [London, before 19 January 1890]; the date is that of the editors of the MEW. Manuscript preserved at the IISG (Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels Papers, inv. K 1402), transcribed from the digital facsimile by the Escuela de marxismo, 2026 (two independent readings and collation with the image). Written in English. Diplomatic transcription: spelling, capitals and punctuation as in the manuscript; deletions as text where they can be read, otherwise [ilegible]; interlinear additions inserted where marked, with a note; [?] after an uncertain reading; [ilegible] for an illegible word. Spanish translation
Dear Charles
Within two months of your engaging Percy you wrote to me asking for a loan, and in such[?] terms that which hardly could leave any doubt of your intention to terminate that agreement which unless I acceded to your wish. And as soon as had I had1 replied in the negative, you did terminate it. You will can hardly deny, that if you intended to convey the idea that the engagement was a mere preliminary to the loan, you could not have acted[?] done it better. But you now say Such[?] there was no connexion whatever2 between the two, and of course I am bound to believe you.
Yours sincerely
F. E.