Letter to Karl Marx, November 1, 1867

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 1 November 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 Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 42


ENGELS TO MARX

IN LONDON

Manchester, 1 November 1867

Dear Moor,

What is the matter? Why have I not heard from you at all? Ever since your last letter I have been in constant fear that you have the carbuncles again. Have you heard any more from across the water? From Kugelmann or Meissner concerning articles on your book3? I am getting no news of any kind and, in the circumstances, there is damn little I can do.

Just how far Dizzy[1] has contrived not merely to DISH the Whigs but to disorganise the Tories, too, was demonstrated to me the day before yesterday in a conversation with two of that ilk. They were agreed:

1. that the Irish Church and thus the Established Church in England, too, should fall forthwith,

2. that the LAWS OF PRIMOGENITURE AND ENTAIL[2] are no longer tenable,

3. that when the Queen[3] dies, a revolution will probably soon follow here.

Your

F. E.

  1. ↑ Benjamin Disraeli
  2. ↑ The laws of primogeniture and entail—feudal inheritance laws that were still in force in Britain in the 19th century. In accordance with them, the title and land were to be inherited by the elder son without the right of alienation.
  3. ↑ Victoria