Letter to Friedrich Engels, July 25, 1860

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 25 July 1860


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 2, Stuttgart, 1913
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 25 July [1860]

Dear Engels,

The £5 arrived. Ditto the article.[1] I shall send you the Report on FORTIFICATIONS.[2] Did you see Urquhart's lamentations on the subject in the latest Free Press of 4 JULY[3] ? If you would care to write about it in English, and this would seem to be most apposite, you should send the thing here when it is finished. I would then see what could be done with publishers, or at worst get it into a revue or a weekly.[4]

What Kinglake said[5] was correct, as is borne out by the absurd manner in which the Moniteur reported his speech.[6]

Salut.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ F. Engels, 'British Defences'.
  2. ↑ Report of the Commissioners appointed to consider the Defences of the United Kingdom; together with the Minutes of Evidence and Appendix; also Correspondence relative to a Site for an Internal Arsenal, London, 1860.
  3. ↑ 'Mr. Urquhart on the Invasion of England', The Free Press, Vol. VIII, No. 7, 4 July 1860.
  4. ↑ On 24 July Engels wrote the article 'British Defenses', and in late July the article 'Could the French Sack London?'. They were published in the New-York Daily Tribune, Nos. 6020 and 6021, 10 and 11 August 1860 (see present edition, Vol. 17).
  5. ↑ See this volume, p. 173.
  6. ↑ Le Moniteur universel, No. 197, 15 July 1860.