Letter to Friedrich Engels, July 29, 1860

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 29 July 1860


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 41


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 29 July [1860]

Dear Engels,

Enclosed herewith the final nonsuit from the High Court.[1] It would be useless to go on to the Supreme Tribunal. It would simply add to the costs. It's imperative that I now send Weber his 32 talers 3 silver groschen and 6 pfennigs so that the chap can let me have the documents (including his indictment) by return. I need them for the pamphlet,[2] which will be ready for my wife to copy (and she'll do it quickly) within the next 8-10 days.

What is to be done next (I mean in the newspapers)? A lawsuit like this (note, e.g., the deplorable tone, reminiscent of newspaper polemics, of the High Court's findings) is something I have not come across before. These Prussian curs need a thorough hiding. It's a good thing, by the by, that they've supplied me with 'material'.

Nevertheless, the craven rabble in the High Court did see fit to disallow Mr Vogt's insinuations about 'extortion', etc.

Salut.

Your

K. M.

Eccarius has been lodging a few doors away from us for nearly three weeks now and is feeling better.

  1. ↑ This refers to the rejection by the Royal High Court of Legal Counsellor Weber's appeal against the ruling by the Berlin Royal Municipal Court on Marx's libel suit against the National-Zeitung (see Note 188). The High Court ruling, dated 11 July 1860, had been forwarded by Weber to Marx (for details see Marx's Herr Vogt, present edition, Vol. 17, pp. 282-83).
  2. ↑ K. Marx, Herr Vogt.