Letter to Karl Marx, April 4, 1869

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 4 April 1869


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


ENGELS TO MARX

IN LONDON

Manchester, 4 April 1869

Dear Moor,

What are Applegarth and Odger thinking of, lending themselves to Lloyd Jones as partners and directors of the planned Citizen Newspaper?[1] And how has Lloyd Jones suddenly managed to establish his position as a LEADER? For he is supposed to become the editor of this 'oh-so educated'[2] worker-petty-bourgeois paper. The sooner I get information about this, the better, as that jackass Kyllmann is hawking the prospectus around here.

Yesterday we finally achieved the long-planned transfer of my official headquarters from Dover STREET to 86 Mornington STREET,[3] to the great pleasure of Lizzie, who also went out again for the first time yesterday.

You have not told me what news you have about Löhrchen's[4] health.

Best greetings.

Your

F. E.

Since you obviously have not discovered what snieuntojown means, I shall tell you: Saturday evening.[5] But how? That is now the question.

  1. ↑ The Bee-Hive, No. 390, 3 April 1869, carried a report on the conference of cooperative societies held in Leeds at which Lloyd Jones, a figure in the British cooperative movement, made a speech on the need to set up a joint press organ of cooperatives and trade-unions, and proposed to call it the Citizen Newspaper. The project had not been carried out.
  2. ↑ 'jebildeten' in the original (Berlin dialect)
  3. ↑ Between 1867 and 3 April 1869, Engels' domicile was at 25 Dover Street; he referred to 86 Mornington Street, the house he rented for Lizzy Burns and where he himself lived most of the time since August 1864, as his 'unofficial address'. From 3 April and until September 1870 when he moved to London, Engels' domicile was at 86 Mornington Street.
  4. ↑ Laura Lafargue
  5. ↑ See this volume, p. 247.