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Title: Covering Letter to the Editor of The Daily Chronicle (1891)
Description: Draft of the short letter with which Engels sent The Daily Chronicle his reply to the slander on Jenny Marx, reproaching the paper, so useful to the English working class, for letting its correspondents abroad spread calumnies about the Continental labour movement.
Author: Friedrich Engels
Date: 1891-11-17
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/originales/1891%20Covering%20Letter%20to%20the%20Editor%20of%20The%20Daily%20Chronicle
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*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](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/originales/1891%20To%20the%20Editor%20of%20The%20Daily%20Chronicle); 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](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/1891%20Carta%20de%20acompa%C3%B1amiento%20de%20una%20declaraci%C3%B3n%20al%20director%20de%20The%20Daily%20Chronicle)*

Editor[^1] ~~[ilegible] Esq.~~ Daily Chron. Office

Dear Sir

For the ~~[ilegible]~~ sake of historical[^2] 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 about[^3] ~~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.