Letter to Karl Marx, February 12, 1860

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 12 February 1860


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 2, Stuttgart, 1910
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41


ENGELS TO MARX

IN LONDON

[Manchester,] 12 February 1860

Dear Moor,

You will have had the £5, or at least I hope so. The Wiehe document is most welcome. Après ça1 our shinish-ter[1] Blind will doubtless tuck his tail between his legs. In the meantime, you have, I trust, obtained one from Vögele.[2] The more evidence the better.

So, the Kölnische Zeitung has, after all, published your declaration[3] and, at the same time, taken another swipe at Blind? So much the better.

Strohn is in Hamburg and behaving very well over this particular affair, or so I hear. I shall write to him. He too can prove useful.

Saluti.

Your

F. E.

  1. ↑ This refers to the issues containing the items 'Karl Vogt und die Allgemeine Zeitung' and 'Wie.man radikale Flugblätter macht', Nos 37 and 41, 22 and 25 January 1860. - Engels writes 'finschtre' (instead of 'finstre'), presumably mimicking Blind's articulation.
  2. ↑ On 11 February 1860, the compositor Vögele took out an affidavit confirming, in effect, that Blind was the author of the flysheet Zur Warnung (see Note 60). Marx reproduced the affidavit in Herr Vogt (present edition, Vol. 17, p. 319).
  3. ↑ See this volume, p. 37.