Letter to Friedrich Engels, November 20, 1882

Author(s)	Karl Marx
Written	20 November 1882

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 46

MARX TO ENGELS

IN LONDON

[Ventnor,] 20 November 1882

DEAR FRED,

By the end of this week (i. e. next Monday, 27 November) I shall be on my uppers. As I am supposed to advise you a week beforehand, I am now doing so. Before leaving London I paid ABOUT £ 5 to the PARLIAMENTARY BOOKSELLER St. King and ABOUT £2 to Kolkmann (bookseller), but also spent £ 3 on sundry items.

Tussy and Johnny left me at ABOUT 3 O'CLOCK today in passable weather.

I am perturbed over the news from Paris; it's unpardonable that Lafargue, Guesde, etc., should permit themselves to be caught up in legal proceedings 4 4 0; it could have been foreseen; the whole thing was simply occasioned by 'anxiety' over competition from the 'anarchists'! Puerile!

Salut.

Your

K. M.