Letter to Friedrich Engels, October 22, 1858

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 22 October 1858


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


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] Friday [22 October 1858][1]

Dear Engels,

I haven't a moment to lose today, for it's already 2 o'clock and I've still not begun the article.[2] I am just writing you these few lines to inform you that you must send something next week. Two articles a week means my spending an enormous amount of time hunting for material. Write about China. Another subject might be the ludicrous RIFLED CANNONS article in today's Times![3]

Yesterday, after ages of silence, a letter arrived from Pieper— from the hospital in Dalston (London).

My mother has written me a fatuous letter. She has postponed our discussion until such time as / 'shall' visit her. Obviously there has been interference by a third party.

The manuscript[4] has not gone off yet and, Lupus or no Lupus, it will be weeks before I am able to send it.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ 21 or 22 October
  2. ↑ Marx seems to refer to his article 'Mr. John Bright' printed in the New-York Daily Tribune on 12 November 1858 as a leader, without any heading. It bears signs of the editors' interference (see present edition, Vol. 16).—350
  3. ↑ 'The theory of war...', The Times, No. 23131, 22 October 1858.
  4. ↑ K. Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.