Letter to Friedrich Engels, July 7, 1854

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 7 July 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,] 7 July 1854 28 Dean Street, Soho

Dear Engels,

You must excuse me for not having acknowledged receipt of the £5 before. This was due to much TROUBLE at home, since my wife is leaving for Trier tomorrow, an undertaking which has called for indescribable efforts.

Your article[1] arrived just when I myself was concocting a scrawl on Spain.[2] I shall therefore put your article by until Tuesday,[3] the more so since Pieper is available to act as my secretary on Fridays, while on Tuesdays I now have no one to do the writing.

I had not yet had time to look at the poem. I shan't be free till after 6, when I shall send you an answer either by telegram or city post.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ F. Engels, 'The War on the Danube'.
  2. ↑ K. Marx, 'The Details of the Insurrection at Madrid.—The Austro-Prussian Summons.—The New Austrian Loan.—Wallachia'.
  3. ↑ 11 July