Letter to Friedrich Engels, October 12, 1852

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 12 October 1852


First published in MEGA, Abt. III, Bd. 1, Berlin, 1929
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 39


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 12 October [1852] 28 Dean Street, Soho

Dear Frederic,

More about your letter later. Enclosed:

1. A document, 'The German Loan Star Society', smuggled into the Advertiser[1] by Ruge-Ronge.

2. A cutting from Weydemeyer's Lithographierte Correspondenz about the effect of this dangerous 'SOCIETY' on their League congress at Wheeling.[2]

3. An article for Dana.[3] But the whole of it must go off, as I have a mass of political stuff for next time. I had a bad headache when I was scribbling the thing. So don't be afraid to deal with it FREELY in translating.

You may have read the infamous article in yesterday's Times, a contribution dated Berlin.[4] All the cur has done is to translate from the Neue Preussische Zeitung (the Cologne trial) and add one or two scurrilous comments from his own STOCK.[5]

Your

K. Marx

  1. ↑ 'The German "Lone Star"', The Morning Advertiser, No. 19122, 6 October 1852. Here Marx puns on the title of the article and the attempt of the American Revolutionary League to raise a loan.
  2. ↑ The Congress of the American Revolutionary League (see Note 173) was held in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA, in September 1852
  3. ↑ The article written by Marx on 12 October 1852 for the New-York Daily Tribune was translated by Engels into English and sent by Marx to New York on 15 and 19 October as two articles: 'Pauperism and Free Trade.—The Approaching Commercial Crisis' and 'Political Consequences of the Commercial Excitement' (see present edition, Vol. 11)
  4. ↑ 'From our own correspondent' in the section 'Prussia', The Times, No. 21243, 11 October 1852.
  5. ↑ Marx and Engels attacked The Times and The Daily News for supporting the Prussian reactionaries on the issue of the Cologne Communist Trial (see Note 16) in their 'Public Statement to the Editors of the English Press' written on 28 October 1852 (see present edition, Vol. 11)