Letter to Adolf Cluss, April 23, 1852

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 23 April 1852


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 28, Moscow, 1962
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 39


MARX TO ADOLF CLUSS[1]

IN WASHINGTON

[London, 23 April 1852]

... You will realise that Weydemeyer's letter[2] made a very unpleasant impression here, particularly on my wife, since it arrived on the day of my youngest child's[3] funeral; for two years now she has seen all my enterprises regularly come to grief. The prospect held out by your letter (arrived 19th Apr.) of receiving the 'Bonaparte'[4] in print was therefore all the more welcome to me, for by nature she is very resilient and your letter set her up again...

  1. ↑ See this volume, pp. 567-69.
  2. ↑ See this volume, p. 85.
  3. ↑ Franziska
  4. ↑ K. Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.