Letter to Friedrich Engels, November 4, 1868

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 4 November 1868


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 4, Stuttgart, 1913
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 43


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 4 November 1868

DEAR FRED, On Friday[1] I have to pay the water rates and, further, Tussy's re-subscriptions with Winterbottom (gymnastics), etc. I would be grateful if you could send me SOME £ by the day after tomorrow.

How are things with the Russian's manuscript?[2] Have a look at it and then let me have your opinion. The poor fellow is certainly waiting anxiously for my reply.

Pyat has had a stroke of good luck. He has now got hold of his own German—Herr Weber[3] from the Palatinate.

In all haste.

Your

K. M.

Enclosed letters from Eichhoff.[4] He believes Schweitzer has denounced him here. NOTHING OF THE SORT. His denouncer (which he should not know) is Borkheim. In order to get rid of him ON THIS POINT and, at the same time, to elucidate the suspicion that could, in fact, be aroused by Eichhoff's reference to Bismarck (in his speech reported in Wilhelm's Wochenblatt), I have written to Eichhoff[5] that he has been denounced to the General Council here and should send me his DEFENCE.

  1. ↑ 6 November.
  2. ↑ A reference to Joseph Dietzgen's manuscript 'Das Wesen der menschlichen Kopfarbeit' (The Essence of Human Brainwork) sent to Marx for review from St. Petersburg, where Dietzgen lived from 1864 to 1869. The work was published for the first time in Hamburg in 1869.
  3. ↑ J. V. Weber
  4. ↑ In his letters to Marx of 31 October and 31 October-1 November 1868, Eichhoff cleared himself of the charge of being connected with the Prussian police (see Note 61). Among the reasons that had led to this suspicion was an inaccurate report of Eichhoff's speech at the first meeting of the Berlin Democratic Labour Union (see Note 207) on 15 October 1868 published by Die Zukunft and later by the Demokratisches Wochenblatt, No. 43, 24 October 1868.
  5. ↑ The letter in question has not been found.