Letter to Karl Marx, November 16, 1857

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 16 November 1857


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels and K. Marx, Bd. 2, Stuttgart, 1913
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 40


ENGELS TO MARX

IN LONDON

Manchester, 16 November 1857

7 Southgate

Dear Marx,

Enclosed the table[1] I forgot yesterday. I have just seen that today's Guardian has everything on Delhi. I'm going home now (6 o'clock) and shall do my best to go through it and get the article,[2] if only a short one, done for you; it can go off by the 2nd post as I think I shall have finished it by 12 o'clock. At such short NOTICE there can be no question of tidying it up or correcting the style.

In these circumstances it's most doubtful whether I shall be able to send you 'Cannon'[3] by Thursday. I have only two evenings left and I can't write every evening without my head starting to spin. So it will have to wait until a week today.

Your

F. E.

  1. ↑ See p. 205.
  2. ↑ F. Engels, 'The Capture of Delhi'.
  3. ↑ This refers to the article 'Artillery', which Charles Dana asked Marx to write for The New American Cyclopaedia early in May 1857. Engels undertook to write the article but, busy widi 'Army' and smaller articles for die Cyclopaedia, he did not begin it till after 19 October. Marx and Engels did not expect diat the article could still be included in the current volume widi the 'A' articles and diought, as diis and the following letters show, diat it could be inserted in some odier volume, under the tide 'Cannon' or as a historical part of the corresponding article ('The History of Cannon'). However, the article was finished by the end of November, despatched to New York on the 27di of diat mondi, and included in Vol. II of die Cyclopaedia under the original tide 'Artillery'.—190, 195, 198, 199, 200, 207, 251