Letter to Julius Schuberth, Theodor Hagen and Stephen Adolph Naut, March 4, 1850

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 4 March 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, p. 228-229

TO JULIUS SCHUBERTH IN HAMBURG
AND THEODOR HAGEN AND STEPHAN ADOLPH NAUT IN COLOGNE

[Draft]

[London,] 4 March 1850

1. Schuberth. Letter answered. The 2nd issue[1] must, as promised, not cost more than the first. As regards the 450 copies, no change can now be made for the first quarter. For the 2nd he should put forward proposals. The arrangement for Köhler's payment has nothing to do with this.

What Schuberth says about success contradicts his earlier information and our reports.

In future nothing to be set aside without asking us. For the 3rd issue 'To Die for the Republic'[2] can stand.

50 copies to be sent here. The correspondence from South Germany[3] no longer to be used.[4]

2. Hagen. Same as Schuberth. Should organise proper supervision of the printer[5] and also obtain from the latter a certificate re number of copies.[6] The correspondence from South Germany no longer to be used.

He should vigorously oppose the censor's presumption and place his name on the title page as the responsible editor.[7]

Should section IV of The Campaign for the German Imperial Constitution create difficulties, this should be reported at once.

3. Naut. Terms for printer—price as in Hamburg; for Eisen: 25 per cent for Cologne, 50 per cent for all other copies, incl. all expenses, excepting, perhaps, postage from London and advertisements ordered by us.

The printer must deliver 5 sheets in 10 days and fix penalty for breach of contract.

  1. ↑ Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Politisch-ökonomische Revue.
  2. ↑ F. Engels, The Campaign, for the German Imperial Constitution, IV.
  3. ↑ by Joseph Weydemeyer
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ H. G. Voigt
  6. ↑ The printing of the first issue of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Politisch-ökonomische Revue by Köhler's printshop in Hamburg turned to be of poor quality. Because of this and of the disagreements between Köhler and the publisher Schuberth, from the second issue the Revue was printed at H. G. Voigt's in Wandsbeck near Hamburg.
  7. ↑ While the Revue was being printed, disagreements arose between the proof-reader Theodor Hagen and the publisher Schuberth, who wanted to accommodate the Revue to the censorship standards existing in Germany at the time. Hagen proposed to assume responsibility to the censors for the content, and Marx and Engels insisted that Hagen's name should appear as 'responsible editor' on the title page. However Schuberth succeeded in having Hagen's proposal rejected.