Letter to Friedrich Engels, March 17, 1854

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 17 March 1854


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXII, Moscow, 1929
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 39


To Engels in Manchester

[London,] 17th March, 1854

DEAR Frederic,

I trust that you promptly consigned to the flames the letter I wrote you yesterday.[1] It was, of course, idiotic to make you in any way, I won't say answerable for Blanc, but even so much as to question you about him. In any case the whole thing's gone to pot et il ne vaut pas[2] your ever reverting to it.

Is the Mr John Petzler of the Labour Parliament that mad brute, the old London Petzler? Ask Heise some time.

The parcel for you has not yet gone off because I have not yet received Urquhart's article on military affairs.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ Marx's letter to Engels mentioned here has not been found
  2. ↑ and it's not worthwhile