Letter to Friedrich Engels, October 10, 1867

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 10 October 1867


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 3, Stuttgart, 1913
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Selected Letters. The Personal Correspondence, 1844-1877, Boston, Toronto, 1981
Also published in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 42


MARX TO ENGELS[1]

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 10 October 1867

DEAR FRED,

You will see from the enclosed letter from Kugelmann that the time for ACTION has now come.[2] You are better placed to write to

[3] [4] [5]

him about my book[6] than I am. He must, at the same time, avoid divagations and not send us the things for correction, but after they have appeared. You must impress on him that 'making a commotion' is what matters most, far more than how it is done or being thorough.

Nothing in the enclosed note from Meissner. How can he expect reviews before his own publisher's notices have appeared?

Salut

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ This letter was published in English for the first time in Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Selected Letters. The Personal Correspondence, 1844-1877, Boston, Toronto, 1981.
  2. ↑ In his letter to Marx of 8 October 1867 Ludwig Kugelmann offered to publish short notes about Volume One of Capital and asked for the corresponding instructions.
    For Engels' efforts to popularise Volume One of Capital see Note 479.
  3. ↑ b without inhibition
  4. ↑ d commercial traveller
  5. ↑ f So much the better.
  6. ↑ the first volume of Capital