Letter to Karl Marx, January 7, 1863

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 7 January 1863


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 3, Stuttgart, 1913
Published in English in full in a footnote in The Letters of Karl Marx, selected and translated with explanatory notes and an introduction by Saul K. Padover, Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1979
Printed according to the original in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41


ENGELS TO MARX

IN LONDON

Manchester, 7 January 1863[1]

Dear Moor,

Mary[2] is dead. Last night she went to bed early and, when Lizzy[3] wanted to go to bed shortly before midnight, she found she had already died. Quite suddenly. Heart failure or an apoplectic stroke. I wasn't told till this morning; on Monday eveningK she was still quite well. I simply can't convey what I feel. The poor girl loved me with all her heart.

Your

F. E.

  1. ↑ Wrong date in the original: '1862'.
  2. ↑ Mary Burns
  3. ↑ Lizzy Burns