Manuscript of Friedrich Engels (17 November 1891), preserved at the IISG (Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels Papers, inv. K 348-349), transcribed from the digital facsimile by the Escuela de marxismo, 2026; attribution and date according to the MEW (vol. 22). Draft, on the back of the sheet that carries the draft of the enclosed statement, The Late Mrs Marx; the letter itself is not known to have been printed. Untitled; the title is the editors'. Diplomatic transcription: spelling, abbreviations, capitals and punctuation as in the manuscript; deletions as text only where they can be read with certainty, otherwise [ilegible]; interlinear and marginal additions inserted where marked, with a note; [?] after an uncertain reading. Traducción al español

Editor1 [ilegible] Esq. Daily Chron. Office

Dear Sir

For the [ilegible] sake of historical2 truth I request you to insert the enclosed reply to one of the most infamous & [ilegible] pieces of slanders ever concocted.

I regret that the D. Chron. which has done such good service to the working class in England should lend allow its Correspondents abroad to spread calumnious reports about3 itself & having[?] Continental working class movements & their leaders [ilegible] your Paris correspondent seems to be jealous of your Berlin one, about whose true character I believe you have been some time ago been told the truth.4

Yours faithfully

  1. «Editor» written above the line, before a deleted name followed by «Esq.». ↩

  2. «sake» and «historical» written above the line. ↩

  3. «allow» written above the end of the line; «its Correspondents abroad / to spread calumnious / reports about» in three short lines in the left margin; «Continental» above the line. ↩

  4. These four lines are enclosed in a drawn frame and cancelled as a block: besides the horizontal strokes, which do not cover every word, several vertical strokes run through the whole frame. Below the letter, separated by a rule, there are pencil calculations (48-132-63-99 …) that do not belong to the text. ↩