Letter to Theodor Cuno, March 29, 1883

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 29 March 1883


First published in the journal Die Gesellschaft, Jg. 11, Nr. 11, Berlin, 1925
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 46


ENGELS TO FRIEDRICH THEODOR CUNO

IN NEW YORK

London, 29 March 1883

Dear Cuno,

Your letter evoked roars of laughter over here.5 Anyone who knew Moor as he was at home and within his intimate circle, is aware that he was never called Marx there, or even Karl, but only Moor, just as each of us had his own nickname; indeed, at the point where nicknames ceased so too did the closest intimacy. Moor had been his nickname since his university days and on the Neue Rheinische Leitung he was always called Moor. If I had addressed him in any other way he would have thought something was amiss that needed putting right.

Your

F. Engels