Letter to Karl Marx, October 28, 1868

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 28 October 1868


First published in MEGA, Abt. III, Bd. 4, Berlin, 1931
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 43


ENGELS TO MARX

IN LONDON

Manchester, 28 October 1868

Dear Moor,

In all haste, I return the enclosures from Kugelmann[1] and Wilhelm.[2] Congratulations on the professorship. The letter from Wilhelm is indeed amusing. This omnium-gatherum of instructions to you, so that you might do something too. I also congratulate Strohn on the agency for the Stehfest firm of whose commercial stability I am far from convinced.[3]

Lizzy has rushed off with her friend MRS Chorlton (the fatty) to her relations in Lincolnshire and will return only on Friday or Saturday. Naturally the maid had to pick this precise moment to fall ill, but Ellen[4] is helping us out.

Best greetings to all.

Y o u r

F. E.

  1. ↑ In his letter to Marx of 15 October 1868 Kugelmann wrote about a review of Capital by Hansen, a Berlin professor of political economy, who said, among other things, that it was 'the most significant phenomenon of this century'. Hansen also offered Marx a professorship in political economy.
  2. ↑ Ibid., p. 142.
  3. ↑ Engels puns on the name Stehfest and the word Stehfestigkeit (stability).
  4. ↑ Mary Ellen Burns