Letter to Karl Marx, January 26, 1866

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 26 January 1866


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 3, Stuttgart, 1913
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 42


ENGELS TO MARX

IN LONDON

Manchester, 26 January 1866

Dear Moor,

What is holding me up is that I have no material and hardly any recollection either about the way in which the emancipation of the serfs was finally carried out in Russia, what land the peasant received, who paid for it, what his present de facto relation is to the landowner, etc., etc. I have undoubtedly seen the earlier plans of the nobility and the emperor,[1] but not the definitive implementation. Have you any material on it[2] ?

Your

F. E.

N.B. I shall not refer directly to the article in the 1864 Tribune,[3] cela serait lui faire trop d'honneur?

  1. ↑ Alexander II
  2. ↑ See this volume, pp. 212-13.
  3. ↑ that would be doing it too great an honour