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Title: To the Committee of the Independent Labour Party (1895)
Description: Engels declines, on his doctor's orders, an invitation of the London Federation of the Independent Labour Party and returns the ticket.
Author: Friedrich Engels
Date: 1895-04
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/originales/1895%20To%20the%20Committee%20of%20the%20Independent%20Labour%20Party
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*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](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/1895%20Al%20comit%C3%A9%20del%20Independent%20Labour%20Party)*

Best thanks to the Committee for its kind invitation, but as my medical adviser strongly objects just now to my acceptg[^1] ~~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

[^1]: Thus abbreviated in the manuscript, for «accepting». There is no full stop at the end.