Letter to Karl Marx, December 19, 1860

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 19 December 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


ENGELS TO MARX

IN LONDON

[Manchester,] 19 December 1860

Dear Moor,

Enclosed the £2 on Camden Town. The more I read of the book,[1] the more difficult I find it to imagine how Vogt will pass off these stories that 'will never come out'.[2] 41 copies in London in a few days is a great deal; by now it will be even more. This is, of course, the best polemical work you have ever written; it's simpler in style than the Bonaparte[3] and yet just as effective where this is called for.

Your

F. E.

  1. ↑ K. Marx, Herr Vogt.
  2. ↑ See this volume, p. 228.
  3. ↑ K. Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.