Letter to Laura Marx, September 23, 1867

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 23 September 1867


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 31, Moscow
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 42


ENGELS TO LAURA MARX

IN LONDON

Manchester, 23 September 1867

Dear Löhrchen,

I have received your delightful letter, and as soon as the books arrived I despatched the various copies[1] to their resp. recipients— those to Imandt and Strohn sent securely packed by BOOK POST, but the one intended for me, for which my best thanks to Moor, straight to the binders.

You will be interested to learn that a week ago last Saturday I already showed Lafargue[2] the battlefield where the great Fenian liberation battle was enacted the previous Wednesday.[3] We were actually within ten paces of the railway arch; however, he will scarcely recollect it.

So that you may see what man, and cotton-man in particular, is capable of, I am sending you enclosed the latest abomination of this kind in the form of a cotton sheen-wig. These GUYS are now being made and sold in colossal quantities.

Your friend has been successfully elected at Schneeberg in Saxony to the great North German Reichstag against Count zur Lippe, and will no doubt soon be making a great maiden speech. THE RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE.

With hearty greetings to the whole family, most sincerely

Your

F. Engels

  1. ↑ of the first volume of Capital
  2. ↑ From 13 September 1867, Marx and Paul Lafargue stayed for a few days with Engels in Manchester.
  3. ↑ The reference is to the spot under the railway bridge in Manchester where on 18 September 1867 Fenians made an armed assault on a police van in order to free two arrested Fenian leaders (see Note 497).