Letter to Josef Valentin Weber, April 22, 1863

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 22 April 1863


First published in Neues Deutschland, No. 15, 15 January 1963. Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41


MARX TO JOSEF VALENTIN WEBER

IN LONDON

[London,] 22 April 1863
9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, Haverstock Hill

Dear Weber,

Will you stand surety for me with a LOAN SOCIETY (for £ 1 5 to £30)?

I would not have troubled you with this request if

1. the matter were not an entirely formal one, entailing no risk to yourself, for I shall be getting £200 from home at the beginning of July;

2. Pfänder, who would otherwise have been my second surety, had not unexpectedly had to go to Manchester for several weeks.

In addition to other cases of illness in my family, I myself have been suffering from my periodic liver complaint for many weeks now and have thus been literally incapable of writing a single line. Hence the delay over the work for the Society[1] which was more disagreeable for me, of course, than for the Society itself.

Salut. Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ See this volume, p. 455.