Letter to Karl Marx, June 27, 1860

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 27 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 for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41


ENGELS TO MARX

IN LONDON

[Manchester, 27 June 1860]

Dear Moor,

Let me have the enclosed back; I shall immediately write a few lines for Siebel about the Berlin affair and send them to him with my reply to be passed on. The same applies to Heckscher.[1]

I shall see if I can still do Bohemia today.[2] It is close on 8 o'clock and I'm still at the office. Whether I shall be able to do anything on Garibaldi tomorrow, I don't know yet; 1. no material, 2. my brother-in-law.[3] Enfin,[4] I shall do my best.

So Izzy appears in public with Vogt and is secretly our ally.[5]

Cela n'est pas mal.[6] Write to Meissner at once.[7]

Your

F. E.

  1. ↑ See this volume, p. 167.
  2. ↑ ibid., p. 165.
  3. ↑ Karl Emil Blank
  4. ↑ In short
  5. ↑ An allusion to the fact that Lassalle, as well as Vogt, had contributed to the Demokratische Studien almanach published by Meisner in 1860. Among other items, it contained Lassalle's article 'Fichtes politisches Vermächtniß und die neueste Gegenwart' and Vogt's article 'Ein Blick auf das jetzige Genf.
  6. ↑ Not bad, that.
  7. ↑ This seems to refer to the negotiations on the publication of Marx's Herr Vogt, which originally was to appear in Meissner's publishing house in Hamburg.