Letter to Friedrich Engels, June 29, 1855


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

London, 29 June [1855]

Dear Engels,

When you have read the accompanying scraps, you will say: multa INSTEAD OF multum.[1] And rightly so. I was unable to find the most important item, viz. the number and calibre of guns for Spain, although I leafed rapidly through the whole book of Ordenanzas. You'll find something in this respect about the mountain artillery in one of the notes. To judge by a passage in the Portuguese Revista militar, Spanish artillery is largely on a French footing as regards matériel.

I have got together all manner of stuff, some of which may be of use.

Salut

Your

K. M.

Where Minutoli (Baron) quoted, reference is to his book: Spanien und seine fortschreitende Entwicklung etc., Berlin, 1852.

I believe it's that swine of a policeman. Was and still may be Prussian Consul General in SPAIN and Portugal.

  1. Non multa, sed multum (not many, but much)