Letter to Karl Marx, June 1, 1853

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 1 June 1853


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 1, Stuttgart, 1910
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 39


ENGELS TO MARX

IN LONDON

[Manchester, 1 June 1853]

Dear Marx,

Herewith half the £20 note — P/E 90 138. The other half by the 2nd post as I don't know any other address.

The fellow who cashed the bill has gone away for a few days, which means we can't get the money. But so as not to keep you waiting I have got hold of this £20. Settlement of the bill, then, will be effected early next week.

The dirty dog[1] has docked us about £18 for cigars and wine bought from him partly by Charles[2] as a speculation and partly by me for my own consumption, so this has also involved paying debts.

Yesterday I read your article on The Times and the refugees (with the quotation from Dante)[3] in an old number of the Tribune published at the beginning of April. Je t'en fais mon compliment.[4] The English isn't merely good; it's brilliant. Every now and again there's a key word which doesn't fit in quite coulant[5] enough, but that's about the worst that can be said of the article. Pieper is hardly in evidence at all and I can't conceive what you still need him for.

Your

F. E.

  1. ↑ Gottfried Ermen
  2. ↑ Roesgen
  3. ↑ K. Marx, 'Kossuth and Mazzini.— Intrigues of the Prussian Government.— Austro Prussian Commercial Treaty.— The Times and the Refugees'.
  4. ↑ I congratulate you.
  5. ↑ smoothly