Letter to Friedrich Engels, March 16, 1859

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 16 March 1859


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
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 40


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MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 16 March 1859

DEAR Frederick,

£5 received. THANKS. Yesterday proof sheet II b arrived. If it goes on like this it'll take them three months. There can't possibly be more than one type-setter employed on this affair.

I don't know what to write about on Friday. Can you do something—on Armstrong's GUN, perhaps?

Mr Bruno Bauer has, I am told, written a pamphlet on the 'question of the day', pro-Russia and France and anti-Austria and England. He is now the ally of Manteuffel, in support of whom he has already written recently in the Zeit.[1]

I am sending you that CLOWN Edgar Bauer's paper. The man has become a great communist and working men's representative. He and his little rag are almost finished. The first article, 'Zank',[2] is a direct attack on me. I am, it seems, quietly to join up with Mr Edgar and emerge from my 'surly' and 'distrustful' isolation. The CLOWN has turned into a real preacher. He doesn't dare attack the Hermann for fear the fellows may disclose his 'PAST'.

Kinkel's paper is doing excellent business. Prudently, he has quite given up writing himself. The money comes partly from a Dr Juch and partly from the Portuguese Jew, Castello (an old Portuguese financial house), who was talked into it by the great Gerstenberg.[3]

  1. ↑ Die Neue Zeit, No. 37, 12, March 1859.
  2. ↑ of Marx's A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy c Die Neue Zeit
  3. ↑ The letter is unsigned.