Letter to Friedrich Engels, February 13, 1869

Author(s)	Karl Marx
Written	13 February 1869

First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 4, Stuttgart, 1919
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 43

MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 13 February 1869

DEAR FRED,

THANKS for the copies of Zukunft. Enclosed is a letter from Lugau,^[1] together with the fellows' statutes, etc.^[2] Since I am, at the moment, very occupied with my book,^[3] and have actually started work again after a feverish-cold interruption of several weeks, it would be very good—supposing your time is not completely taken up either—if you could make me a short report on the enclosed documents^[4] (if possible in English, for communication to the GENERAL COUNCIL). These good mineworkers in Lugau are the first in Germany to communicate with us directly, and we must take a public stand on their behalf.

Salut.

Your

K. M.

Send me the stuff back as soon you no longer need it.

↑ Marx refers to Gustav Adolf Bachmann's letter of 31 January 1869 with the request of the Lugau workers to be affiliated with the International Working Men's Association. See Die I. Internationale in Deutschland, Berlin, 1964, S. 295.
↑ See this volume, p. 172.
↑ Capital
↑ Engels wrote the 'Report on the Miners' Guilds in the Coalfields of Saxony' (see present edition, Vol. 21) at Marx's request on the basis of material sent in by the Saxon miners from Lugau, Nieder-Würschnitz and Oelsnitz, who informed the General Council and Marx personally of their wish to join the International (see Note 241). The report, which Engels had written in English, was read at the General Council meeting of 23 February 1869. An abridged version appeared in The Bee-Hive, No. 385, 27 February 1869. Other English newspapers, including The Times, The Daily News and The Morning Advertiser, refused to carry the report. In early March 1869 Marx himself translated it into German, and it was published in Der Social-Demokrat, No. 33, 17 March, Demokratisches Wochenblatt, No. 12 (supplement), 20 March, and Die Zukunft, nos. 67 and 68, 20 and 21 March 1869.

[1] Marx refers to Gustav Adolf Bachmann's letter of 31 January 1869 with the request of the Lugau workers to be affiliated with the International Working Men's Association. See Die I. Internationale in Deutschland, Berlin, 1964, S. 295.

[2] See this volume, p. 172.

[3] Capital

[4] Engels wrote the 'Report on the Miners' Guilds in the Coalfields of Saxony' (see present edition, Vol. 21) at Marx's request on the basis of material sent in by the Saxon miners from Lugau, Nieder-Würschnitz and Oelsnitz, who informed the General Council and Marx personally of their wish to join the International (see Note 241). The report, which Engels had written in English, was read at the General Council meeting of 23 February 1869. An abridged version appeared in The Bee-Hive, No. 385, 27 February 1869. Other English newspapers, including The Times, The Daily News and The Morning Advertiser, refused to carry the report. In early March 1869 Marx himself translated it into German, and it was published in Der Social-Demokrat, No. 33, 17 March, Demokratisches Wochenblatt, No. 12 (supplement), 20 March, and Die Zukunft, nos. 67 and 68, 20 and 21 March 1869.

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