Letter to Ferdinand Lassalle, August 13, 1862

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 13 August 1862


First published in: F. Lassalle. Nachgelassene Briefe und Schriften, Bd. III, Stuttgart-Berlin, 1922
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41


MARX TO FERDINAND LASSALLE

IN BERLIN

London, 13 August 1862

Dear Lassalle,

In order to postpone the crisis, at least for a few weeks, Engels has drawn a bill on you through Borkheim for 400 talers at 3 months from 12 August. He will remit you the covering amount before due date. Then the bill will be renewed until 1st January, when Engels will send you 300 talers and you, in accordance with your promise, will yourself pay 100.

All you have to do for the time being is to accept the bill drawn by Engels. ALTOGETHER, this amounts to £60 and hence doesn't help me. But, at any rate, the present crisis will be averted and some way out may be found in the mean time.

I am literally on tenterhooks and my work has been VERY MUCH TROUBLED and disrupted.

There is some prospect of my getting another Yankee paper.[1]

Where are you? What are you up to? What's your old man[2] up to? Salut from myself and FAMILY.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ The Evening Post
  2. ↑ Heimann Lassalle, Ferdinand Lassalle's father.