Letter to Karl Marx, March 15, 1869

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 15 March 1869


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 4, Stuttgart, 1913
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 43


ENGELS TO MARX

IN LONDON

[Manchester,] 15 March 1869

Dear Moor,

Enclosed, Meissner returned.[1] Today only the following: Even in the past I considered that Bonaparte" really ought to be printed together with your 3 articles in the Revue about the period from February 1848 to 1850[2] ; but I thought that it would cause too much loss of time. Since, however, Meissner himself is delaying, I would still do this now. This will make the whole thing more voluminous—ca. 10-12 printed sheets—and more complete.

If you write to Meissner right away, I am sure there will be enough time.

More tomorrow.

Your

F. E.

Lizzie is in bed with bronchitis and a bad cold; somewhat better today.

  1. ↑ In a letter TO MARX of 8 March 1869, Otto Meissner wrote that the printing of the second German edition of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte had been postponed for commercial reasons (the time between the New Year and Easter being unfavourable for book-publishing, while later, Marx could have counted on proofs).
  2. ↑ A reference to three articles by Marx, 'The Defeat of June 1848', 'June 13, 1849' and 'Consequences of June 13, 1849' published in 1850 in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Politisch-ökonomische Revue, nos l, 2 and 3, which later formed the principal part of the book The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850 (see present edition, Vol. 10, pp. 45-131).
    In 1895, Engels reprinted the articles from the Revue in German with his introduction (see present edition, Vol. 27).