Letter to Friedrich Engels, January 19, 1855

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 19 January 1855


First published abridged in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 2, Stuttgart, 1913 and in full 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


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 19 January 1855 28 Dean Street, Soho

Dear Engels,

Agree absolutely—and, indeed, most gratefully—to your scheme.

The parliamentary thing seems likely to misfire for reasons of time. BUT NEVER MIND.

Your yesterday's letter[1] didn't reach me until 4 o'clock this afternoon because the ass of a postman (this is the 2nd or 3rd time it has happened, and I shall complain to the POST OFFICE) delivered it to 28 Soho Square instead of 28 Dean Street. In future address your letters to 28 Dean Street, Soho (instead of Soho Square). Because it arrived so late, I can write you no more than these few lines today.

What's this about Barthélémy? I missed it in the Augsburg paper.[2] Probably a fabrication on the part of the miserable 'Oly' or 'Ody', one of the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung correspondents, a blackguard from Switzerland.

Salut.

Your

K. M.

There's a tremendous panic in the City, and Freiligrath wrote yesterday telling me that even the most 'sanguine' expect things to be very bad until early spring.

  1. ↑ In reply to attacks in the Allgemeine Zeitung in April 1848 Heine stated in the supplement to No. 144 of the same paper, on 23 May 1848, that he was compelled to accept the pension his French friends (the historian Mignet, in particular) succeeded in obtaining for him as he was in great straits owing to the prohibition of his books in Germany
  2. ↑ i.e. 'Die Assisenverhandlung gegen Barthélémy', Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 9, 9 January 1855, supplement.