Letter to Friedrich Engels, February 15, 1854

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 15 February 1854


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXII, Moscow 1929
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 39


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 15 February 1854 28 Dean St., Soho

DEAR Frederic, The lithographic sample enclosed herewith is all my own work.[1]

Bonaparte's publication of his LETTER to BROTHER- Nicholas shows that he already had a negative answer in his pocket.[2]

Salut.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ See illustration facing p. 414. 15—2736
  2. ↑ In a letter to Nicholas I of 29 January 1854, Napoleon III proposed as a condition of preserving peace that Russia should withdraw her troops from the Danubian Principalities. On 14 February 1854 the letter was published officially in Le Moniteur universel, No. 45. Nicholas I's reply, containing a refusal to accept Napoleon III's proposal, was sent off on 9 February 1854 and published in Le Moniteur universel, No. 64, 5 March 1854