Letter to Friedrich Engels, November 17, 1859

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 17 November 1859


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 2, Stuttgart, 1913
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 40


MARX TO ENGELS[1]

IN MANCHESTER

[London, 17 November 1859]

Dear Engels,

If you have nothing ready on Morocco[2] by tomorrow, there will be time enough until Saturday (i.e. via Cork[3] ). I am writing today (not having written on Tuesday) about the Suez question. The Morocco affair must follow. Otherwise they'll be compelled to copy from The Times. Salut

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ The letter is not dated. By its contents it is close to Marx's letter to Engels of 16 November 1859. Marx's mentioning that he wanted an article about the war in Morocco 'by tomorrow', and that he was writing an article about the Suez question, 'not having written on Tuesday', suggests that 'tomorrow' means Friday (Tuesday and Friday being the days when Marx sent articles to the New-York Daily Tribune), and that this letter was written on Thursday, 17 November.—529
  2. ↑ At the beginning of December Engels wrote the article 'Progress of the Moorish War'.
  3. ↑ seaport in Ireland