Letter to Friedrich Engels, May 1, 1869

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 1 May 1869


First published in MEGA, Abt. III, Bd. 4, Berlin, 1931
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 43


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 1 May 1869

DEAR FRED,

Enclosed letter to our Belgian secretary[1] will become comprehensible to you from the attached Cigale, the organ of the FRENCH BRANCH,[2] one analogue of which has formed itself in Brussels[3] and one (Comité de l'avenir[4] ) in Geneva; ALL TOGETHER a few dozen men under Pyat's leadership.

My wife is still not well at all, but thinks she will be able to leave for Paris on Tuesday.

Once again it is just before Thomas, i.e., close of post. I think that tomorrow I shall at last be able to write more fully to you.

Salut!

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ Marie Bernard
  2. ↑ A reference to the French Section of the International in London, founded in the autumn of 1865. Besides proletarian elements (Eugène Dupont, Hermann Jung, Paul Lafargue), the branch included representatives of the petty-bourgeois emigres (Le Lubez, Pierre Vésinier and later Félix Pyat). See also this volume, p. 62 and Note 89.-45, 62, 63, 75, 78, 83, 91, 173, 272, 481, 488, 497
  3. ↑ 'Association Internationale des Travailleurs. Formation d'une nouvelle section à Bruxelles', La Cigale, No. 16, 18 April 1869.
  4. ↑ Committee of the Future