Letter to Friedrich Engels, July 18, 1859

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 18 July 1859


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,] 18 July 1859

DEAR Frederick,

Since the last number of the Volk proved so very exiguous, I intend this week to put something in about Russia. It would please me greatly if an article by you could appear at the same time. Wouldn't it be possible to do something military summing up the campaign, or else ridiculing the whole affair?[1] But it would have to be here by Thursday. If the little sheet fails to appear on Friday, it always means a serious loss of revenue; last time this fell off appreciably, another reason being that we suddenly had to change all our agents and get rid of Scherzer among others. The CLOWN Edgar Bauer (an admirer of Bonaparte) has uttered a mighty threat, viz. that we are to be attacked in the next Hermann. Nous verrons[2] \...

Have you seen my book[3] advertised anywhere yet? Salut.

Your

K. M.

Little Jenny has been awarded THE GENERAL PRIZE, Laura two special prizes.

  1. ↑ In compliance with Marx's request Engels wrote an article entitled 'The Italian War. Retrospect'.
  2. ↑ We shall see.
  3. ↑ A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy