Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann, July 28, 1869

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 28 July 1869


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVI, Moscow, 1935
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 43


ENGELS TO LUDWIG KUGELMANN

IN HANOVER

Manchester, 28 July 1869

Dear Kugelmann,

Enclosed the biography suitably adapted for Zukunft,[1] and drawing attention to the 18th Brumaire.[2] I would be grateful if you had it copied there, since it would be better for Weiss not to know it is by me.

Marx will be writing to you, or will have already written, about the journey. You certainly will not get him to go to Karlsbad,[3] and as far as I am concerned, the business with the final accounts, etc. is dragging on so much that I have no idea when I shall be able to get away; it's as good as certain that this will not be before 15-20 August. It's very unpleasant, but since this is the last time that COMMERCE will burden me so, I should not grumble too much. This means that I shall scarcely get to see you this year, as I shall hardly get as far afield as Karlsbad.

In order to get the biography off today I must close now—so until next time, and let Karlsbad do some good to your gall-stones.

One of my sisters-in-law in Barmen also had some once, but she is happily rid of them, and once again round, fat and jolly.

Yours

F. E.

  1. ↑ In a letter of 6 July 1869, Ludwig Kugelmann suggested to Marx that after the negotiations with Guido Weiß, the editor of Die Zukunft, a short biography of Marx written by Engels for another publication should appear in that newspaper (see also Note 106).
  2. ↑ K. Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 2nd edition.
  3. ↑ Karlovy Vary