Letter to Joseph Weydemeyer, February 4, 1850

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 4 February 1850


First published: in Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXV, Moscow 1934
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 38, pp. 225-226

TO JOSEPH WEYDEMEYER IN FRANKFURT AM MAIN


London, 4 February 1850

Dear Weydemeyer,

The reason for your getting such a late reply to your letter is that I was seriously ill for a fortnight.

The Revue will be appearing next week. Your article will be in it. We are awaiting the continuation.[1]

The publication of the periodical was delayed through my illness. Actually we had arranged it so that two issues should appear simultaneously but the publisher[2] was opposed to this out of commercial considerations which we thought correct. So a further change was necessary and this happened to coincide with my unlucky illness.

You will receive 100 copies from Cologne. Please send two of them to C. Biringer in Höchst near Frankfurt. He ordered them from here. You will probably undertake to get payment for them.

I have passed on your message to Teilering. The fellow is quite unsuited to be an English correspondent. In Vienna it was alright for him to bluster. Here you have to study matters. More another time.

Your

K. Marx

Best regards to your wife[3] from my wife and self. In Hamburg about 1,500 copies have already been ordered.

  1. ↑ Marx's intention to enlist Joseph Weydemeyer as a regular contributor to the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Politisch-ökonomische Revue was never realised. About mid-January Weydemeyer wrote his first article 'From South Germany' but it was not published in the first issue of the Revue owing to lack of space, and later lost its topical interest.
  2. ↑ Julius Schuberth
  3. ↑ Louise