Letter to Jenny Marx, December 18, 1851

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 18 December 1851


First published in MEGA, Abt. III, Bd. I, 1929
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 38


To Jenny Marx in London

[Manchester,] Thursday evening [18 December 1851]

Dear Mrs Marx,

I have received both your letters[1] and hasten to write and tell you that it goes without saying that each of us will send off his article separately, as there is otherwise every prospect of none of them catching the steamer. In London the letters should be at the post office by 5 or 6 o'clock on Friday evening. I shall see what I can do—for some time now the fatherland has bored me so dreadfully that I know nothing about anything. Anyway I shall send off something. The English Manifesto[2] together with such New York Schnellposts as are still available here, I shall be bringing with me. Tell Marx to be sure not to forget to write to Weydemeyer, asking him to obtain the relevant numbers of the Tribune immediately from Dana and send them on to me here so that I may proceed.[3]

When I shall be able to leave—maybe not until Saturday morning—I don't yet know exactly.[4] But I think I shall arrive at the latest at 6 o'clock on Saturday evening, perhaps as early as 11 in the morning. Until then, my warm regards to you and all your family from your

F. Engels

  1. ↑ See this volume, pp. 562 and 563.
  2. ↑ K. Marx and F. Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party.
  3. ↑ Engels intended to write a series of articles on the 1848-49 revolution in Germany for the New-York Daily Tribune. The articles were subsequently published as a separate work entitled Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany (see present edition, Vol. 11).
  4. ↑ Engels went to London on 20 December 1851. He stayed there for about a fortnight, mostly in Marx's company, and returned to Manchester on about 4 January 1852.