Letter to Karl Marx, March 28, 1870

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 28 March 1870


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, 28 March 1870

Dear Moor,

Yesterday I sent you, in a letter that was not registerable because it was Sunday, a £ 5 NOTE, S/7, 29,808, Manchester, 16 January 1869, which I hope you received together with the letter. Enclosed now follow £82.10—DRAFT ON DEMAND ON UNION BANK OF LONDON, DRAWN BY MANCHESTER AND COUNTY BANK TO ORDER OF F. ENGELS AND ENDORSED TO YOU, and, further, the various Dutch and Russian letters. The Roesgen here[1] claims that he is certainly not a relative of the Rotterdam one.[2] The latter is quite something in his confusion— the divine right of the king and the people—the protest against hedendaagsche[3] Communism, the defence of constitutional monarchy against the republic (though in this there is in Holland an atom of historical idea) and, finally, protective tariffs. In such a case one may well be called Philipp von Roesgen von Floss. And it is also rather cool that he accuses the bourgeoisie that they first want hunne eigene beurs vullen[4] and then het door her uitgezogen land aan den daarop vlammenden Pruis verkoopen.[5] This should be sent to Bismarck.

Your

F. E.

  1. ↑ Charles Roesgen
  2. ↑ Philipp von Roesgen von Floss
  3. ↑ contemporary
  4. ↑ to fill their own purses
  5. ↑ sell the land they have sucked dry to Prussia, which ardently desires it