Letter to Friedrich Engels, November 4, 1852

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 4 November 1852


First published considerably abridged in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 1, Stuttgart, 1913 and in full 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[1]

IN MANCHESTER

London, 4 November 1852 (?) Dear Engels,

I am having to dictate these few lines to you today since the perfidious haemorrhoids will not let me sit down.

Enclosed a letter from Schneider which arrived yesterday evening and 1 letter from Collmann to Bangya[2] which kindly send back.

As you see, Szemere wants to have his manuscript[3] back. Vehse told me yesterday that Weerth had arranged an appointment with him in London but had got the date wrong: I duly explained things to him.

Your

K. M.

[From Mrs Marx]

Warm regards from the secretary, Marx's spouse. Kossuth is furious with Marx for having told Dana about his DODGE with Bonaparte, Vetter, etc.; Dana has made this material into a fulminating article.[4]

  1. ↑ The letter is written in Mrs Marx's hand. Marx himself inserted only the year with a question mark and signed the letter.
  2. ↑ The reference is to a letter of 28 October 1852 composed by Bangya in the name of Charles Collmann, a publisher invented by him, concerning the preparations made for publishing Marx's and Engels' manuscript The Great Men of the Exile. The letter was not written on a publishers' notepaper and had no post marks. It contained Bangya's note dated 3 November 1852 asking Marx to acquaint himself with Collmann's letter
  3. ↑ B. Szemere, Graf Ludwig Batthyâny, Arthur Görgei, Ludwig Kossuth.
  4. ↑ K. Marx, 'Movements of Mazzini and Kossuth.—League with Louis Napoleon.—Palmerston'.