Letters to Friedrich Engels, July 3, 1857

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 3 July 1857


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 40

TO ENGELS IN MANCHESTER


[London,] Friday, 3 July [1857]

9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, Haverstock Hill


Dear Engels,

Shall be writing tomorrow. This is just to inform you that -the second half of the note had still not arrived by this evening.

Considering the bad luck which has been dogging me of late, it may well have got lost. I couldn't go to Williams' since my wife's condition has meant—pretty well ever since you left[1] —that I can't leave her on her own.

Your

K. M.

[London,] 3 July [1857]

DEAR Frederic,

I am writing again TO GAINSAY my earlier note. No. II arrived on the stroke of 6. No letter has ever arrived so late before, and hence I wrote in order to avert possible MISCHIEF.

Salut.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ Engels arrived in London early in June 1857 and returned to Manchester at  the end of the month.