Letter to Karl Marx, about March 8, 1862

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 8 March 1862


First published in MEGA, Abt. Ill, Bd. 3, Berlin, 1930
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 40


ENGELS TO MARX

IN LONDON

[Manchester, about 8 March 1862]

Dear Moor,

Encl. what I had promised. The second article will follow next week.[1] I haven't seen Lupus yet; shall call on him this evening. The Free Presses and your letter have arrived/

Do you know a Prussian refugee by the name of Sippel (Sippel),[2] a mathematician? Apparently, the chap was tutor to a family by the name of Montgomery in Hampstead, was arrested before the amnesty[3] while travelling with this family in Prussia and not released until several months later, and is now said to be applying for a post as professor of mathematics at the University of Belfast. Someone up here wants to know more about the man, presumably in connection with some BUSINESS or other.

11 A. Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, vols. I-II,

[4]

Telegrams should be addressed in future to: 7 South Gate St. Mary's Manchester. In haste.

Your

F. E.

  1. ↑ See this volume, pp. 345, 346. ' ibid., p. 347.
  2. ↑ In the original the name is written in both German and Roman characters.
  3. ↑ A supreme Decree on Amnesty (Allerhöchster Gnaden-Erlaß wegen politischer Verbrechen und Vergehen) was issued in Prussia on 12 January 1861 in connection with the Coronation of King William I. See also this volume, pp. 248-49.
  4. ↑ London, 1776; A. Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures: or, an Exposition of the Scientific, Moral and Commercial Economy of the Factory System, of Great Britain, 2nd ed., London, 1835.