Letter to Friedrich Engels, July 11, 1862

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 11 July 1862


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 3, Stuttgart, 1913
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 11 July [1862]

Dear Engels,

Lassalle has been here for the past 2 days and proposes to stay for several weeks. Now, you really ought to come down for a few days, seeing that he is in any case much 'OFFENDED' by the failure on

a The Free Press. See this volume, p. 362. - b Ueber Verfassungswesen and Die Philosophie Fichte's und die Bedeutung des Deutschen Volksgeistes, Berlin, 1862.

your and Wolff's part ever to acknowledge receipt of his writings. Anyway, you had intended to spend a few days visiting the EXHIBITION.

If this letter is somewhat scanty, it's because I'm working like a Trojan on the book.[1]

Salut.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ This refers to Marx's work on the second instalment of A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, which he started on completing his polemic writing, Herr Vogt (see Note 38). In the period 1861 to 1863 he produced a vast manuscript (200 sheets of print), the second rough draft of Capital