Letter to Friedrich Engels, September 7, 1867

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 7 September 1867


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 3, Stuttgart, 1913
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 42


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

In haste

[London,] 7 September 1867

DEAR FRED,

1 letter from Lessner enclosed. I already had the Gazettes de Lausanne.[1] The Times has cut Eccarius quite disgracefully.[2] I am, at the same time, sending you NEWEST Diplomatic Review and copies of the Courrier français, which I must always have back. The Courrier français has made nonsense of the short notice I sent it about Hübner[3] by putting tomber sous le marteau des démolisseurs[4]

instead of tomber sous la subhastation[5] (which is an expression from the Code Napoléon). Adio.

Your

K. Marx

  1. ↑ In his letter to Marx of 5 September 1867 Friedrich Lessner gave him extensive information about the beginning of the International's Lausanne Congress (see Note 462) and referred to the report published in the Gazette de Lausanne.
  2. ↑ A reference to the first of Eccarius' series of articles about the Lausanne Congress of the International published in The Times, No. 25909 of 6 September 1867. The other articles of the series were published in The Times, Nos. 25911-25913 of 9-11 September 1867. In his articles Eccarius made ironical comments on the muddled views of the French Proudhonist delegates and their verbosity.
  3. ↑ Le Courrier français, No. 81, 6 September 1867.
  4. ↑ fall beneath the hammer of the demolishers
  5. ↑ be subjected to compulsory auction (see this volume, p. 421)