Letter to Karl Marx, April 19, 1869

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 19 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, 19 April 1869

Dear Moor,

Enclosed Liebknecht returned. I wrote to him in a strictly BUSINESSLIKE[1] way about the Peasant War,[2] and I shall hear how he reconciles the gushing of funds for printing pamphlets with the newspapers'[3] deficit.

Lafargue's manuscript[4] is here; I have not yet been able to take a look at it, and I think he should take his exams avant tout.[5]

The great Thesmar from Cologne is now here, has introduced himself to Gumpert and also Borchardt under the name Themar, but has already accepted Thesmar. If you can send me the number of Zukunft that mentioned the warrant out against him for embezzlement, then do so; otherwise I shall have to write to Schneider.

Your

F. E.

Another curious subject[6] greeted Borchardt as 'editor of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung'; Borchardt himself will write to you about him.

  1. ↑ The letter in question has not been found.
  2. ↑ F. Engels. The Peasant War in Germany (see this volume, pp. 262, 265).
  3. ↑ Demokratisches Wochenblatt
  4. ↑ See this volume, p. 262.
  5. ↑ first of all
  6. ↑ Gromier (see this volume, p. 275).