Letter to Friedrich Engels, July 8, 1870

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 8 July 1870


First published abridged in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 4, Stuttgart, 1913 and in full 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,] 8 July 1870

Damn heat!

DEAR FRED,

After receipt of your telegram I informed Dupont of the necessary. He is leaving on Monday,[1] 11 o'clock, from Euston Station.

I would recommend you to let the child sleep with him for the short time he'll be there. Since the sickness and death of the mother there has been a certain neglect and, owing to school attendance, the possibility of creepy-crawlies on her head. At least it appears so to the female section here.

Tomorrow I'll send you the FRENCH PAPERS with the trial proceedings.[2] I must have them back as soon as possible. Little Jew Frankel[3] has won laurels. Both with the accusés[4] and in the newspapers etc., you will note the tendency to claim for themselves (Paris) the invention of the Internationale.

I'll go and see Beesly about the London catalogue tomorrow.

Salut.

Your

K. M.

(Verle)[5]

Jenny has still had no reply from Ireland, apart from the enclosed letter from Pigott.[6] The fellow writes as if he were replying to an ADVERTISEMENT. Jennychen is TOO gentille for him. // lui faut[7] THE FEROCIOUS IRISH GIRL. If FOREIGNERS here are, in general, prejudiced against the Irish, aren't narrow-minded nationalists like Pigott responsible?

  1. ↑ 11 July
  2. ↑ A reference is to the third trial of the members of the Paris Federation of the International arrested by the French police on the eve of the plebiscite (see notes 612 and 642). The trial was held between 22 June and 5 July 1870. The prosecution failed to bring in the charge of conspiracy; the defendants were charged not with complicity in the fictitious plot, but with being members of the International.
  3. ↑ Leo Frankel
  4. ↑ accused
  5. ↑ Turn over
  6. ↑ See this volume, p. 562.
  7. ↑ He needs