Letter to Friedrich Engels, March 2, 1866

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 2 March 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


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 2 March 1866

DEAR FRED, The thing will soon be all over now. I think that by tomorrow or the day after at the latest I shall not merely be able to rise from my bed, but to go out, and that with this last malignant cur the series of carbuncles is finished, FOR THIS SEASON. I also feel much better again GENERALLY. This last attack was atrocious. It did not merely put paid to any work, but to any reading, too, EXCEPT Walter Scott.

I found the arsenic not at all unpleasant to begin with (when the taste of the CINNAMON predominated). Now I am beginning to find its specific flavour most repugnant. Otherwise, I believe it was helpful. I took it 3 TIMES A DAY from the outset.

How are things with your contributions for The Commonwealth?[1] And with John Watts 'ON MACHINERY'?[2] [3]

The sofa to which I have been confined for 9 days now is in my study, but right by the window, so that at certain times of day, e. g. as at this moment, T can enjoy a most refreshing breeze.

You have no further cause for anxiety now, but AS FAR AS ACTUAL OUTBREAKS ARE CONCERNED you can regard the business as terminated.

Salut.

Your

K. M.

Little Tussy 'SENDS HER BEST COMPLIMENTS TO HER CHIMP'.

  1. ↑ F. Engels, 'What Have the Working Classes to Do with Poland?'
  2. ↑ See this volume, pp. 224, 228.
  3. ↑ Part of this letter was published in English for the first time in the Labour Monthly, No. 4, London, 1923.