Letter to Friedrich Engels, August 13, 1866

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 13 August 1866


Part of this letter was first published in English in Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Selected Letters. The Personal Correspondence, 1844-1877, Boston, Toronto, 1981
First published in full in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 3, Stuttgart, 1923
Published in English in full for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 42


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 13 août[1] 1866

DEAR FRED,

Lenchen[2] reached the post-office too late on Saturday to send off my note gratefully acknowledging receipt of the £10.

You must forgive me if I do not write a letter today. I have the most pressing business on my back. I wrote a long letter in French to Lafargue today, telling him that I must have des renseignements positifs[3] from his family concerning his economic circumstances before the affair can proceed or an ARRANGEMENT can be arrived at.[4]

A letter that he passed to me yesterday from a famous French doctor[5] in Paris speaks well of him.

The title of the book: P. Trémaux: Origine et Transformations de l'Homme et des autres Êtres. Première Partie. Paris (Librairie de L. Hachette) 1865. Part Two has not yet appeared. No planches.[6] The man's geological MAPS are in his other works.

Snippet from Liebknecht enclosed. I shall be sending you his newspapers,[7] too, but they are not worth a pinch of snuff.[8]

Salut.

Your

K. M.

I shall also be getting the chief work by the above-mentioned Parisian médecin and will let you have it as soon as I have read it myself.

  1. ↑ August
  2. ↑ Helene Demuth
  3. ↑ positive information
  4. ↑ See this volume, pp. 307 09.
  5. ↑ Jules Antoine Moilin
  6. ↑ plates
  7. ↑ Mitteldeutsche Volkszeitung - doctor. J. A. Moilin (le docteur Tony), Leçons de médecine physiologique.
  8. ↑ Marx was sending Engels a letter to him from Liebknecht of 10 August 1866 along with a few issues of the Leipzig Mitteldeutsche Volkszeitung. The newspaper was founded in 1862 by liberals but in August 1866, after it had lost most of its subscribers it was sold to Liebknecht. He tried to turn it into a democratic paper and use it, as he wrote to Marx, to publicise the ideas and documents of the IWMA in Germany. However, on 29 August the publication was stopped by the Prussian military authorities of the city and was never renewed again.