Letter to Friedrich Engels, March 18, 1868

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 18 March 1868


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 4, Stuttgart, 1913
Printed according to the original
Published in English in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 42


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 18 March 1868

DEAR FRED,

The £5 received with many thanks. Laura and Lafargue will first go to Paris (after the marriage), then rent an APARTMENT here (somewhere on the Heath, d if findable) and after Lafargue's final exam (he took the others at Bartholomew's HospitalH14) will go back to France for a time, and then move off to America, where OLD Lafargue[1] has house and home.

Whence comes the word b 1 5 higid, hid, hiwisc (hida autem Anglice vocatur terra unius aratri culturae sufficiens[2] )? And also the German word: wiffa (Qui signum, quod propter defensionem terrae[3] that is to say, to declare the land INCLOSED, a sign instead of a real fence ponitur, quod signum wiffam vocamush).

Salut.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ François Lafargue
  2. ↑ hida is also the name in English for the land that can be cultivated sufficiently with one plough (see also this volume, pp. 560 61).
  3. ↑ Here a sign to declare the land defended