Letter to Karl Marx, September 11, 1851

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 11 September 1851


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. I, Stuttgart, 1913
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 38, pp. 453


TO MARX IN LONDON

[Manchester,] Thursday, 11 September [1851]

Dear Marx,

Today I had hoped to be able to finish an article for you to send to America.[1] I still have about 3-4 pages to do. So I must give up all idea of tomorrow's post but, unless I'm mistaken, a Collins steamer is leaving on Wednesday—the article can go by that, to be followed by the 3rd on Friday. I shall make inquiries about it. In the present mind I consider this American business, which definitely brings in money, to be more urgent than the Proudhon,[2] of which I can't tell whether it will bring so certain and rapid a return; that is why I have tackled the former first. If you should think otherwise, write and say so.

You'll have got my Monday's letter.

En attendant tes nouvelles.[3]

Your
F. E.

  1. ↑ F. Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany. Article II.
  2. ↑ F. Engels, 'Critical Review of Proudhon's Book Idée générale de la Revolution au XIXe siècle.
  3. ↑ Waiting to hear from you.