Letter to Karl Marx, September 1, 1868

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 1 September 1868


First published abridged in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 4, Stuttgart, 1913 and in full in MEGA, Abt. III, Bd. 4, Berlin, 1931
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 43


ENGELS TO MARX

IN LONDON

Manchester, 1 September 1868

Dear Moor,

Enclosed the £5 for Moore's SUBSCRIPTION to the INTERNATIONAL. So get me the receipt for him.

I am waiting on tenterhooks for a letter from my mother informing me of her arrival in Ostend and of her address. I am to go there for a few days,[1] and hear and see nothing. If there is no news by the day after tomorrow, hardly anything will come of it, since good old Gottfried[2] wishes to go away next week. As soon as I have news, I shall notify you by telegraph of my forthcoming arrival[3] in London.

I shall bring the Lassalle swindle[4] with me, or Schorlemmer, who has it, will send it to you as soon as he's read it.

Jones is holding OPEN AIR MEETINGS here for the workers,[5] but acts so tamely that he is already being attacked for it by his rival Henry. On Saturday[6] evening he called Gladstone 'THAT GREAT LEADER OF THE WORKING CLASSES!' I heard this myself. He is being too clever once again.

Your

F. E.

  1. ↑ Engels' mother wrote on 2 September 1868 to tell him that she had arrived in Ostend the day before. Engels joined her for about 10 days there. En route he met Marx in London.
  2. ↑ Gottfried Ermen
  3. ↑ In the original: reply.
  4. ↑ B. Becker, Enthüllungen über das tragische Lebensende Ferdinand Lassalle's.
  5. ↑ Ernest Jones was nominated for the Parliamentary elections of 1868 by Manchester's workers, but lost.
  6. ↑ 29 August