Letter to Friedrich Engels, September 1, 1860

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 1 September 1860


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXII, Moscow 1929
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 1 September 1860

Dear Engels,

Herewith a letter from Weydemeyer. Secondly, a letter from my lawyer.[1] You should send me back the latter. Clearly the chap hasn't grasped the point about the flysheet and I'd let him have further information on the subject in the unlikely event of the Supreme Tribunal's referring the case back to the Municipal Court for an actual hearing. Here we have one of the beauties of Prussian jurisprudence. I have now been through five provisional courts to obtain 'bureaucratic permission' actually to conduct the lawsuit. Such things could only happen in the 'enlightened State' of Prussia.

It is now three o'clock, so I don't suppose your Garibaldi article will arrive today. I wouldn't BOTHER you so much about the affair if it wasn't for the fact that, during the elections, the Yankees are reading nothing about foreign affairs SAVE for the melodramatic events in Italy.[2] Aside from that, articles on the HARVEST and TRADE at most, on which subjects one cannot, of course, decently write more than once a week.[3]

Your

K. M.

La Mo'ise's[4] general is 'Sauernheimer', appointed General of the 'Bristlers'[5] by Abt. Package received (Thursday).[6]

  1. ↑ See previous letter.
  2. ↑ Marx means Garibaldi's successful operations, after his landing on the mainland on 19 August 1860 (see Note 198), to free Southern Italy from the rule of the Neapolitan Bourbons.
  3. ↑ In late August and early September Marx dealt with these subjects in two articles for the New-York Daily Tribune, 'Corn Prices.—European Finances and War Preparations.— The Oriental Question' and 'British Commerce' (see present edition, Vol. 17).
  4. ↑ Sibylle Hess
  5. ↑ See this volume, p. 71.
  6. ↑ This refers to an article and money sent by Engels. Marx added the line on Thursday, 2 September.