Letter to Karl Marx, May 19, 1869

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

Dear Moor,

I must congratulate you on not having come here last week in this lousy weather. But this time you should really come.

About the Peasant War when we meet. The address about Belgium is very good, and that for the Americans even better.[1] I saw them in the Bee-Hive.[2]

Please bring with you the two numbers of the Prussian General Staff Report of 1866;[3] I must compare them with the Austrian ones, which show up some pretty Prussian exaggerations.

Let me know as soon as possible when you will be coming. Your liver must have got somewhat better in the meantime. Close of post.

Your

F. E.

  1. ↑ K. Marx, 'The Belgian Massacres' and 'Address to the National Labour Union of the United States'
  2. ↑ 11 May
  3. ↑ Der Feldzug von 1866 in Deutschland. Redigirt von der kriegsgeschichtlichen Abtheilung des Großen Generalstabes; Der Feldzug der preußischen Main Armee im Sommer 1866. Österreichs Kämpfe im Jahre 1866. Nach Feldacten bearbeitet durch das k. k. Generalstabs Bureau für Kriegsgeschichte, Bd. I-V.