Letter to Karl Marx, March 26, 1858

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 26 March 1858


First published abridged in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 2, Stuttgart, 1913 and in full in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXII, Moscow, 1929
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 40


ENGELS TO MARX

IN LONDON

[Manchester, 26 March 1858]

Dear Moor,

Herewith a five-pound note, number as below.[1] 'Cavalry' progressing well. I have again found some good stuff in Mommsen's Römische Geschichte (Hannibal's cavalry). Unfortunately it's difficult to get hold of anything about the Seven Years War.[2]

You'll have received the Guardians I sent off yesterday. They were the only ones containing reports from Paris or anything at all of special interest.

In haste—it's half past seven—and the office-boys are waiting to lock up.

Your

F. E.

  1. ↑ The number of the note is no longer to be found in the original.
  2. ↑ The Seven Years War (1756-63)—a war of Britain and Prussia against Austria, France, Russia, Saxony and Sweden. As a result of it France ceded many of its colonies (including Canada and almost all its possessions in the East Indies) to Britain, while Prussia, Austria and Saxony were obliged to recognise in the main its pre-war frontiers.—289, 294, 561