Letter to Friedrich Engels, December 8, 1882

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 8 December 1882


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 46


MARX TO ENGELS

IN LONDON

[Postcard]

[Postmarked Ventnor, 8 December 1882]

Returned herewith Prolétaire received today, containing account of Shipton & Co. 4 6 3 (whom, incidentally, Lafargue praised to the skies in the selfsame Egalité because of a collection made for a FRENCH'STRIKE'. That's what happens when every momentary STIMU- LUS immediately causes him to turn in some 'predestined' direc- tion).

In your last postcard 284 delivered today, on the other hand, you mention a Prolétaire, sent me by mistake and to be returned to you, which never arrived here. It should have come yesterday or today, or at least within the past week, but quod non[1] —perhaps it has got lost in the post?

The Sozialdemokrat ought to procure some material (detailed) on the treatment of workers in Prussian state mines, etc., to help define the nature of Wagener-Bismarckian state socialism.

Salut.

Moor

[On the side reserved for the address]

F. Engels, Esq.

122 Regent's Park Road, London, N. W.

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