Works of Frederick Engels
Source: MECW Volume 3, p. 414;
Written: January 28, 1844;
First published: in The New Moral World, Third Series, No. 32, February 3, 1844.
Manchester, January 28, 1844
DEAR SIR, — In my letter to you in the New Moral World of the 13th instant I committed an error. I considered the correspondent of the Times wrong in naming a M. Constant as a Communist; but since I wrote, I have received some French Communist publications, in which an Abb� Constant is named as a partisan of the Community System. At the same time, Mr. Goodwyn Barmby had the kindness to give me some further information about the Abb� Constant, who, he says, has been imprisoned for his principles, and is the author of several Communist works. His creed is thus expressed in his own words: I am a Christian and I take Christianity to be community only.
Requesting you, therefore, to correct the above error in your next number,
I am, dear Sir, yours respectfully,
F. Engels