Letter to Friedrich Engels, December 16, 1858

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 16 December 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


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

London, 16 December 1858

Dear Engels,

MY BEST THANKS. How welcome the money was you will see from the enclosed letter, which arrived at the same time. It is my belief that Schapper and I and 100 others know better what it is to 'fight' in London than do the 'scattered remnants' beside the old harridan's[1] grave. The Heckscher story calls for further investiga- tion. Nice of Freiligrath to give the signal for a Kinkel REVIVAL in Germany. For Lupus' amusement I enclose some of my Berlin GOSSIP articles[2] which I have cut out of the Tribune; also your article on Montalembert, which Dana included under 'Paris', so that in that particular issue of the Tribune we represent the whole of Europe AT ONCE.[3]

Salut.

Your

K. M.

News will soon reach Lupus that the manuscript[4] has gone off, but I'll be blowed if anyone else in similar circumstances and with as rotten a liver could have got it done as soon.

  1. ↑ Johanna Kinkel
  2. ↑ See this volume, p. 352.
  3. ↑ A reference to Engels' article 'The Prosecution of Montalembert' and Marx's 'The New Ministry'.
  4. ↑ K. Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.