MARX TO ENGELS
IN MANCHESTER
[London,] 22 December 1856
Dear Engels,
You would oblige me greatly if you could send me the money before the week is out. I have just been to see Freiligrath and asked him whether he could advance me anything against my bill
on America, which is drawable only in 2 or 3 weeks' time, mais impossible. I was expecting the money from Putnam's today; hasn't arrived. The TRANSACTIONS with Urquhart's wretched rabble—on whom I have claims—are still in suspense.[1] If I'm late with the first payment to my LANDLORD, I shall be entièrement discrédité.
In great haste. Salut.
Your
K. M.
P.S. Can you send me any bon mots on the military aspects of the Prussia-Neuchâtel conflict?[2] They would be very timely. I have dealt with the diplomatic part myself.[3]
Red Wolff[4] is in Blackburn, Lancashire,[5] with his family. Schoolmaster at a salary of £60.
- ↑ See this volume, p. 76.
- ↑ In September 1856 there was a royalist uprising in Neuchâtel. Many of the insurgents were arrested by the Swiss authorities. The King of Prussia insisted on their release. In reply, Switzerland demanded that he should relinquish his tide to Neuchâtel. Under the pressure of France, on whose initiative a European conference on the issue was held in March 1857, Prussia was forced to renounce her claims. In the eighteenth century the principality of Neuchâtel and Valangin (in German: Neuenburg and Vallendis) was under Prussian rule. It was ceded to France in 1806, during the Napoleonic wars. In 1815, by a decision of the Vienna Congress, it was incorporated into the Swiss Confederation as its 21st canton, while remaining a vassal of Prussia. On 29 February 1848 a bourgeois revolution in Neuchâtel put an end to Prussian rule and a republic was proclaimed. Prussia, however, laid constant claims to Neuchâtel up to 1857, thus causing an acute conflict with the Swiss Republic.—86, 88, 89
- ↑ A reference to Marx's article 'The Right Divine of the Hohenzollerns'.
- ↑ Ferdinand Wolff
- ↑ Yorkshire in the original.