Letter to Friedrich Engels, January 6, 1851

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 6 January 1851


First published: in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 1, Stuttgart, 1913
Published in English for the tirst time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 38, pp. 257

TO ENGELS IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 6 January [1851]

Dear Engels,

You would very much oblige me, s'il est possible,[1] by sending me the money by return. My landlady is VERY POOR, this is the second week she has not been paid, and she's dunning me with dreadful determination.

At yesterday's district meeting Wolff[2] appeared, but not Liebknecht or Schramm.[3] Once the new Rules[4] had been adopted, I adjourned the wretched thing indefinitely.

Your

K. M.

Our Revue will probably appear afresh in Switzerland. Work out SOMETHING then, so that I have the manuscript READY if needs be.

  1. ↑ if possible
  2. ↑ Ferdinand Wolff
  3. ↑ Conrad Schramm
  4. ↑ This refers to the Communist League Rules drawn up by the Cologne Central Authority in the autumn of 1850 after the split in the League (see present edition, Vol. 10, pp. 634-36). The Rules were received in London on 18 December 1850 and were approved on 5 January 1851 by a London district committee meeting, at which Marx was present.