Letter to Friedrich Engels, December 22, 1858

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 22 December 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,] 22 December 1858

Dear Engels,

Yesterday I wrote about Buchanan's MESSAGE[1] —REVIEWED the English PAPERS' criticism thereof.[2] I should be very glad if you could let me have an article by Friday on, say, Campbell's latest campaign, or ANYTHING ELSE. Since the manuscript[3] must go off to Duncker before the end of this year there is, quite literally, no time to lose.

Salut.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ In his Message to the XXXVth Congress of 6 December 1858, President James Buchanan expressed US aggressive intentions as regards Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Brazil, Paraguay and other countries of Central and South America and US strivings for supremacy on the American continent. In the sphere of home policy, Buchanan asked Congress to increase allocations for the navy and the Postal Department in 1858 and urged the construction of a Pacific railroad. Marx's article about Buchanan's message was not published by the New-York Daily Tribune.—364
  2. ↑ J. Buchanan, 'The President's Message to the XXXVth Congress', The Times, No. 23181, 20 December 1858. The paper reviewed the 'Message' in the same issue, in a leader beginning with the words, 'There is nothing in the Message of President Buchanan...'.
  3. ↑ K. Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.