Letter to Friedrich Engels, February 20, 1868

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 20 February 1868


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 4, 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

[London,] 20 February 1868

DEAR FRED,

At the same time as this I am sending you an interesting cutting from a Viennese paper,[1] received via Fox.

Borkheim gave me a letter to him from Liebknecht, which I had to send back to him by return. From this the following excerpt:

'Tell Marx that Dr Contzen is working on a long review, and in a lecture has already mentioned the work[2] in the most laudatory terms from the purely scientific standpoint. And tell Marx, too, that he should get Engels to supply an article about Capital for our paper[3] which now circulates 1,300 copies equally-spread through- out Germany. I myself have no time at present for such a job.'

If you think it worth the trouble to supply something for the paper, it would be good to make the article longer this time (with extracts), even if it had to run through several numbers.[4]

Borkheim will probably be sending you a reprint—if you do not have the paper—of the 'Russian refugees' which he wrote for it.[5]

Dr Contzen, BY THE BY, himself publishes (or published) an economic periodical patrone[6] Roscher.

Regarding health, CHANGE from day to day.

Salut

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ Neues Wiener Tagblatt
  2. ↑ the first volume of Capital
  3. ↑ Demokratisches Wochenblatt
  4. ↑ At Marx's request, Engels wrote a detailed review of Volume One of Capital for the Demokratisches Wochenblatt in the first half of March; it was published in it unsigned, as two articles, in Nos. 12 and 13 of 21 and 28 March 1868 (see present edition, Vol. 20).
  5. ↑ S. B[orkheim], 'Russische politische Flüchdinge in West Europa', Demokratisches Wochenblatt, Nos. 5 and 6, 1 and 8 February 1868 (the end of the article was published in Nos. 17 and 20, 25 April and 16 May 1868).
  6. ↑ under the patronage of