Letter to Bertalan Szemere, November 22, 1860

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 22 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


MARX TO BERTALAN SZEMERE

IN LONDON

[London,] 22 November 1860

My dear Szemere,

My best thanks for your friendly letter and the Kossuth-Cobden-Memorandum[1] which I forgot mentioning in my last.

The state of Mrs Marx has not yet improved. Engels, whom you must consider as my alter ego and who is the author of the pamphlet 'Po und Rhein'[2] I gave you on a former occasion, lives No. 6, Thorncliffe Grove, Oxford Road, Manchester.

The Courrier du Dimanche I receive from time to time by a friend at Paris.[3] Is that Ganesco not a Wallachian? At all events, his name does not point to a French origin.

With my best compliments,

Yours truly,

K. Marx

  1. ↑ By Kossuth-Cobden memorandum Marx evidently means the summary, sent to him by Szemere, of a conversation that Kossuth had had with British MP William Sandford on 30 May 1854. Szemere's source had been a letter from Richard Cobden, leader of the English Free Traders. An excerpt from the memorandum bearing on Hungary's relations with Austria and Russia was quoted by Marx in Herr Vogt (see present edition, Vol. 17, p. 328).
  2. ↑ Po and Rhine
  3. ↑ Probably W. Schily