Letter to Karl Marx, May 24, 1852

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 24 May 1852


First published in MEGA, Abt. III, Bd. 1, 1929
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 39

ENGELS TO MARX

IN LONDON

Manchester, 24 May [1852]

Dear Marx,

If you intend to wait till Friday before leaving by boat for Liverpool, you won't be here till Monday evening, perhaps not till Tuesday morning. If you are absolutely intent on coming by sea, arrange to come via Hull—a boat leaves the CITY three or four times a week at 8 o'clock in the morning and the journey doesn't take so long—you would have to leave on Wednesday morning, or Thursday morning at the latest, the FARE to Hull being 6/6d, and from Hull to" here 3rd class, some seven or eight shillings. You must be here by Friday afternoon, so that we can leave for Liverpool at about 6 o'clock the same evening. The PARLIAMENTARY TRAIN 14° direct from London leaves too late to be any good to you on Friday. You can take the sea-route from Liverpool on the return journey.

Well, quoi que tu fasses, il faudra que tu sois ici le vendredi', à 4 heures de l'après-midi.[1]

Awaiting further details.[2]

Your

F. E.

The story about Willich is most entertaining. So fate has caught up with that pure and noble man after all!

  1. ↑ whatever you do, you must be here by Friday, at four o'clock in the afternoon
  2. ↑ Marx arrived in Manchester probably on 27 May 1852 and stayed with Engels till the second half of June. They devoted this time to writing their joint pamphlet The Great Men of the Exile