Letter to Friedrich Engels, June 5, 1856

Author(s)	Karl Marx
Written	5 June 1856

First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 2, Stuttgart
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 40

MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 5 June 1856

28 Dean Street, Soho

Dear Frederic,

I leave for Scotland at the end of this week, and shall come on to you from there after an interval of 6 days, but will of course give you prior notice. Should you write to me during this week, address the letters 'C. Marx, CARE OF P. Imandt, 29 Cowgate, Dundee'. There was a twofold reason for my decision to come to you via Scotland:

1. Medical, because I know that the sea-voyage will put me to rights and it was only the day before yesterday that I got rid of my rheumatism. Moreover, there have been other unpleasantnesses, including excessive bleeding at stool. I have, of course, also consulted my SURGEON.

2. Pieper. He will accompany me to Scotland and then return to London. Had I not agreed to this arrangement, the lad—he obtained the money for the trip from his former pupil, A. Rothschild—was fully determined to make his way to Paris on a false passport, allegedly with the intention of proceeding from there to Geneva on foot. You will realise what a strange and compromising end SUCH AN EXPEDITION LIKELY WAS TO ARRIVÉ AT.

Salut.

Your

K. M