Letter to Bertalan Szemere, November 21, 1860

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 21 November 1860


First published, in the language of the original (English), in Revue d'histoire comparée, t. IV, No. 1-2, Budapest, 1946
Published in English in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41

TO BERTALAN SZEMERE IN LONDON


[London,] 21 November [1860]


My dear Szemere,

Mrs Marx having fallen very seriously sick (Nervenfieber[1] ), I was precluded from seeing you on Sunday, and visiting you on one of the following days. Mr Borkheim has told me that he saw you on Sunday last.

The article in the Augsburg Gazette alluding to you, has been written by Dr Biscamp,[2] one of my friends, and living in my immediate neighbourhood.

With the best compliments of Mrs Marx and myself

Yours truly,

K. Marx


The Courrier du Dimanche of Nov. 18 publishes a letter d.d. 'Vienna, 14 Nov. I860.'—which is written altogether in the sense [of] your public declaration.[3]

  1. ↑ nervous fever
  2. ↑ [E. Biscamp,] 'Die politischen Emigrationen und die Tuilerien', Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 312 (supplement), 7 November 1860.
  3. ↑ This apparently refers to a statement by Szemere on Emperor Francis Joseph's diploma of 20 October 1860 granting a modicum of autonomy to the non-German parts of the Austrian Empire. Szemere's statement has not been found (see also Marx's Herr Vogt).