To the Committee of the Independent Labour Party (1895)

Manuscript of Friedrich Engels (second half of April 1895), preserved at the IISG (Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels Papers, inv. K 592), transcribed from the digital facsimile by the Escuela de marxismo, 2026; attribution according to the MEW (vol. 22). Draft of the reply, on a slip of paper pasted onto the invitation of the London Federation of the Independent Labour Party (dated 16 April 1895), to its «Socialist Carnival» at Holborn Town Hall on 1 May; not known to have been printed at the time. Untitled; the title is the editors'. Diplomatic transcription: spelling, capitals and punctuation as in the manuscript; deletions as text only where they can be read with certainty, otherwise [ilegible]; [?] after an uncertain reading. Traducción al español

Best thanks to the Committee for its kind invitation, but as my medical adviser strongly objects just now to my acceptg¹ any evening engagements of any sort I am compelled to decline it. As the ticket may be useful for some one else I take the liberty of returning it herewith