Letter to Ferdinand Lassalle, April 4, 1859

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 4 April 1859


First published in: F. Lassalle. Nachgelassene Briefe und Schriften, Bd. III, Stuttgart-Berlin, 1922
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 40


MARX TO FERDINAND LASSALLE

IN BERLIN

London, 4 April 1859

Dear Lassalle,

All my attempts to raise money have failed. I have also had an answer in the negative from home—you know how much attached old people are to 'things finite'. Unpleasant though it is for me to approach you—since your own funds are on the ebb just now—I have no other choice. If 20 friedrichsdors is too much, send less. But draw the money from Duncker later on.

Has Engels' pamphlet[1] come out? I shall write to you from here at length next week (this week there's absolutely no time). In the meantime my thanks for the play[2] and the accompanying letter.

Salut.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ Po and Rhine
  2. ↑ F. Lassalle, Franz von Sickingen. See this volume, pp. 431-32.