Letter to Friedrich Engels, June 15, 1857

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 15 June 1857


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 40


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 15 June 1857

Dear Engels,

Are you laughing or are you weeping, Are you waking or are you sleeping?[1] We here are seriously concerned about you. So write and tell us how you are. I hope you aren't being given any more hot poultices which, as a method of treatment, is quite out-of-date and has now more or less fallen into disrepute. But assuming you are using internal remedies only—as is rational and up-to-date—I fail to see why you have to keep yourself so anxiously secluded.

My wife very unwell. But she sounded the bugle too soon and as yet nothing has happened.

Salut

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ G. A. Bürger, 'Lenore'.