Letter to Ferdinand Freiligrath, July 12, 1864

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 12 July 1864


First published in the notes in F. Mehring, The Freiligrath-Marx Correspondence, Moscow-Leningrad, 1929 (in Russian)
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41


MARX TO FERDINAND FREILIGRATH

IN LONDON

[London,] 12 July 1864 1 Modena Villas, Maitland Park

Dear Freiligrath,

I got a letter today (just now) on which the address would appear to be written in your hand. If that is so, I should like to know how the letter reached you? It is from that blackguard Brass (in Berlin) who has the impudence to ask me to forward a scrawl to Biscamp.[1] Having lost sight of that vagabond Biscamp years ago, I have, moreover, no idea how to rid myself of the scrawl, since the creature's WHEREABOUTS are not known to me.

I am writing from my bed, having had to take to it for several days because of what was a very dangerous carbuncle. This damned complaint keeps incessantly cropping up again.

On the 15th inst. I shall send Lenchen to you bearing £30, returned with many thanks—if, that is, I am not myself capable, though I think I shall be, of betaking myself between now and the 15th (inclusive) to the City, where I have other business to attend to.

Salut.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ In the letter in question, Brass requested Biscamp to contribute to the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, which he was publishing in Berlin.