Letter to Friedrich Engels, August 14, 1862

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 14 August 1862


First published in MEGA, Abt. Ill, Bd. 3, Berlin, 1930. 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,] 14 August 1862

Dear Frederick,

Just a few lines as I have a mass of business errands to r u n today.

T h e misunderstanding consists solely in there 'not having been one'.

Before writing to you, I had told Borkheim that I did not know whether Lassalle was in Berlin, and hence that there was n o certainty of an immediate acceptance. Borkheim had, nevertheless, promised to DISCOUNT the moment he had your signature. H e subsequently thought better of it.

H e decided, not to DISCOUNT in person, as he had originally intended, BUT TO HAVE THE BILL DISCOUNTED BY ONE OF HIS FRIENDS CONNECTED WITH BERLIN. * danger in delay

T o that end, he naturally required Lassalle's acceptance. T h e latter, or so I learned from Bücher yesterday, is at present at Wildbad, where Lassalle SENIOR[1] is more or less on the point of kicking the bucket. I immediately wrote to Baron Izzy.[2]

Salut.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ Heimann Lassai, Ferdinand Lassalle's father
  2. ↑ See this volume, pp. 406 07.