Letter to Friedrich Engels, January 12, 1855

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 12 January 1855


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,] 12 January 1855

Dear Frederic,

Yesterday I sent the report on TRADE and COMMERCE to the Tribune[1] and must now deliver two more articles if I am to pay off my overdraft with the fellows. There are two sailings next week, on Tuesday and Friday,[2] and it would be most desirable if you could let me have an article on un sujet quelconque[3] by Tuesday.

My wife is approaching the catastrophe with a firm tread. Nothing new here. Götz has written to Sidney Herbert asking for an 'officer's brevet' in the apochryphal 'Foreign Legion'.[4]

Salut.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ K. Marx, 'The Commercial Crisis in Britain', I and II.
  2. ↑ 16 and 19 January
  3. ↑ some subject or other
  4. ↑ The formation of a Foreign Legion for the purpose of reinforcing the British in the Crimea was envisaged by the Enlistment of Foreigners Bill passed in Parliament on 22 December 1854. The Legion was not formed however owing to protests against the use of foreign mercenaries