Letter to Friedrich Engels, January 30, 1855

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 30 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,] 30 January 1855

Dear Frederic,

I shall send you such cuttings from the Tribune as you will need for a characterisation of the Coalition, and fill in the gaps, if any, with a few written comments.[1] I shall hardly get round to it today, since I have to send the Breslau jackasses a résumé of yesterday's frightfully long sitting.[2] Also, the BABY[3] is in a very critical condition—my wife, however, very well—so that I have been held up by DOMESTIC AFFAIRS until 1 o'clock (now). Which means that in all probability my stuff won't reach you until Thursday morning.

If Palmerston becomes premier, there'll be some high jinks. Did you read Barthélemy's confession in yesterday's Advertiser'?

Tout à vous[4]

Ch. M.

  1. ↑ The reference is to the Aberdeen Coalition Government (see Note 343) which was defeated in the House of Commons on 29 January. On the basis of the material mentioned here and sent by Marx to Engels with his next letter of 31 January 1855, Engels wrote the article 'The Late British Government' for the New-York Daily Tribune on 1 February 1855. The same subject was used by Marx in the articles 'The Defeated Government' and 'Two Crises' for the Neue Oder-Zeitung in early February 1855 (see present edition, Vol. 13)
  2. ↑ i.e. 'From Parliament.—From the Theatre of War' for the Neue Oder-Zeitung.
  3. ↑ Eleanor
  4. ↑ All yours