Letter to Friedrich Engels, May 16, 1859

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 16 May 1859


First published abridged in Der Briefwechsei 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 40


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 16 May 1859

Dear Engels,

From the enclosed letter of Lassalle's,[1] which I must have back by return, you will see how far things have progressed with the

Vienna BUSINESS. I wrote to Friedländer at once. The fact is that Lassalle doesn't know that I get the Presse every day—I enclose a few excerpts from it—and thus have seen that, up to the time of my letter,[2] he regularly contributed to the paper, but that the latter stopped his telegrams from Berlin on account of their inordinate length; moreover his articles were inept and would be something of an embarrassment to any paper. It is possible that the whole business is off, but it is also possible that the COMMERCIAL PANIC in Vienna, comparable only to the one in Hamburg,[3] has so far prevented the chaps from making any ARRANGEMENT. NOUS verrons.

More in my next—highly comical, too. This much today: our

ex-gérant[4] Korff has been sentenced in New Orleans to 12 years penal servitude for FORGERY OF A BILL.

Ex-imperial regent Vogt[5] has sold himself to Bonaparte.

Salut.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ A reference to Lassalle's undated letter to Marx written in all probability in mid-May 1859. Marx discusses it in this letter and in one to Engels dated 18 May 1859.—433, 434
  2. ↑ See this volume, pp. 407 09.
  3. ↑ We shall see.
  4. ↑ ex manager
  5. ↑ Ex-imperial regent Vogt has sold himself to Bonaparte.