Letter to Friedrich Engels, June 2, 1860

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 2 June 1860


First published abridged in Der Briefwechsel 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 in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 2 June 1860

Dear Engels,

I have written Izzy ABOUT ten pages, eight of them on the Cologne trial and two on Fischel.[1] It was difficult enough for me, because I'm still not fit and am dosing myself constantly.

It's really sickening. Lommel advised me of the despatch of the parcel by rail [a few][2] days ago.[3] It ought to have been here long since.

Fischel has written to tell me that the Daily Telegraph's correspondent in Berlin is a certain Abel.

Have had a letter from Schily. From it I see that Siebel has notified him of the arrival of your pamphlets[4] in Manchester. I shall have to send off Schily's copy via Rheinländer. I must also have one copy to use for my own pamphlet.[5]

Could you let me have something short on the Garibaldi affair for the Tribune by Wednesday[6] ? If that's not possible, by Friday[7] . Salut.

Your

K. M.

Apropos. It transpires from Schily's letter that Moses[8] is also correspondent of the Espérance (and so Bonapartist that one Frenchman actually broke off his friendship with him) and of the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung.

  1. ↑ See previous letter.
  2. ↑ manuscript damaged
  3. ↑ An allusion to Georg Lommel's letter of 28 May 1860 in which he notified Marx of having sent him a parcel (presumably with material exposing Karl Vogt).
  4. ↑ Savoy, Nice and the Rhine
  5. ↑ Herr Vogt
  6. ↑ 6 June
  7. ↑ On about 7 June, Engels wrote the article 'Garibaldi in Sicily'.
  8. ↑ Moses Hess