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Title: Engels to Charles Rosher, [London, before 19 January 1890]
Description: Draft: Engels to Charles Rosher on the loan he asked for and the dismissal of Percy.
Author: Friedrich Engels
Date: 1890-01-19
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/originales/1890-01-19%20Engels%20to%20Charles%20Rosher
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*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](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/1890-01-19%20Engels%20a%20Charles%20Rosher)*

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 had[^1] 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 whatever[^2] between the two, and of course I am bound to believe you.

Yours sincerely

F. E.

[^1]: «had» written above the line.

[^2]: «whatever» written above the line.