Manuscript of Friedrich Engels (6 August 1894), preserved at the IISG (Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels Papers, inv. K 499), transcribed from the digital facsimile by the Escuela de marxismo, 2026; attribution and date according to the MEW (vol. 22). Pencil draft on Engels's notepaper (printed heading «122, Regent's Park Road, N.W.»); 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 additions inserted where marked, with a note; [?] after an uncertain reading. Traducción al español

Dr Comrs

I am instructed by the Exec. Council of the Spanish Working Men's Socialist Party to inform the English Working Men's Socialist Organisations that the said Spanish Socialist Party will hold their 4th annual Congress at Madrid on the1 29 Aug & following days, & that they would be happy to receive (a) few2 words[?] lines of congratulation — in Spanish or French — from English friends, directed to the address at foot.

[The Belfast Tr. Ut.[?] C. 1893 having [ilegible] adhered to the International Soc. Movement by the by voting a resolution demanding the socialisation of all means of production & exchange, I feel bound to [ilegible] include in the list3 this invitation (& its organ the Parl. Com.)]4

This invitation is sent to

The Legal Eight Hours League

" Social Dem. Federatn

" Indept Labour Party

" Fabian Society

" Parliamentary Committee of Trades Un. Congress

" Gas Workers & G. L. Union

I am yours respy F. E.

P. I.

H Cortés 8 pral Madrid

  1. «the» is written heavily, perhaps over another letter. ↩

  2. «on the occasion» written above «receive (a) few», inside a curved line; the «a» is circled. ↩

  3. «include in the list» written above a deleted word. ↩

  4. The whole paragraph is between square brackets in the manuscript; the words «& its organ the Parl. Com.» are enclosed in a line, which runs to an addition written to the right of the first name of the list, also enclosed: «in the list of those to whom this invn is sent». The «&» before «its organ» may be deleted. ↩