Letter to Friedrich Engels, November 16, 1852

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 16 November 1852


First published slightly 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

IN MANCHESTER

London, 16 November 1852 28 Dean Street, Soho

Dear Engels,

If you can, do a Tribune article on the Cologne affair[1] for Friday. You are now as familiar with all the material as myself and, for the past 4-5 weeks I have so neglected my domestic pother for the sake of PUBLIC BUSINESS that, with the best will in the world, I shall not be able to get down to work this week.

You haven't told me whether you received the Reichenbach circular[2] sent off to you last week.

This evening we are to discuss a statement for the English Press on the Cologne affair.[3] There will hardly be time to send it for you to see beforehand. However, if you could do one to reach me by Thursday morning, that would be even better.

Regards to Weerth.

Your

K. M.

At the Ruge meeting[4] on the 9th, messages were received from Kossuth-Mazzini pleading sickness. However, on the 10th they put in an appearance at the 'Friends of Italy'.[5] Ledru did not make his excuses at all.

  1. ↑ F. Engels, 'The Late Trial at Cologne'.
  2. ↑ October 1852 of a lithographed statement of accounts and of a statement by Reichenbach who was the treasurer of the so-called German-American revolutionary loan (see Note 27). Reichenbach refused to be in charge of the funds because the idea of the revolutionary loan did not justify itself. Later Marx quoted extracts from Reichenbach's statement in Herr Vogt, 'Appendices', Section 6 'The War between Frogs and Mice' (see present edition, Vol. 17, p. 314)
  3. ↑ K. Marx and F. Engels, 'A Final Declaration on the Late Cologne Trials'.
  4. ↑ The meeting in memory of Robert Blum in London on 9 November 1852 was organised by Arnold Ruge and his associates. Speeches were made by Ruge, Tausenau, Ronge and other bourgeois radicals and democrats
  5. ↑ Friends of Italy'—an organisation founded in London in May 1851 by the English bourgeois radicals on Mazzini's initiative in order to interest the English public in Italy's national liberation