Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann, December 13, 1867

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 13 December 1867


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXV, Moscow, 1934
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 42


ENGELS TO LUDWIG KUGELMANN

IN HANOVER

Manchester, 13 December 1867

Dear Kugelmann,

'Pursuant to mine humbly of yesterday'—so that you do not forget all the elements of commercial style—you will find enclosed 2 articles, one examining the content of the book, for the Beobachter[1] and the other merely discussing points of fact, for the Gewerbeblatt or the Staats-Anzeiger.[2]

You will appreciate the difficulties which had to be overcome with the first of these when you consider that the editor of the Beobachter is the tedious talker from Swabia, Karl Mayer, from Herr Vogt, who will certainly never knowingly do us any favours. You realise that these articles must only be submitted in copy, but I would ask you to keep all the originals, as one never knows what they may be needed for.

I shall also be sending something for the Merkur, but I cannot yet do so much work in the evening now as I get too excited by it and last night again e.g. I could scarce sleep for thinking of the articles. The weather, business and the vestiges of the tic douloureux from last Sunday are keeping me from riding, and so I cannot get back to normal.

I have not read about the Siebenmark affair[3] in the Zukunft, I but rarely set eyes on the paper.

Farewell for today. It is 6 o'clock in the evening, closing time, and I am tired and hungry.

Yours

F. E.

  1. ↑ F. Engels, 'Review of Volume One of Capital for the Beobachter.'
  2. ↑ F. Engels, 'Review of Volume One of Capital for the Staats Anzeiger für Württemberg.
  3. ↑ A reference to a legal action of the Schulze & Siebenmark firm against a woman home-worker accused of concealing wool. During the trial which took place in Berlin late in 1867, the employers' shady practices were brought to light: they provided their home-workers with dampened wool that lost weight while being processed, for which the workers were heavily fined by the firm. The case was given great publicity.