Letter to Karl Marx, March 28, 1869

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 28 March 1869


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 4, Stuttgart, 1913
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, 28 March 1869

Dear Moor,

You must really have a foul cold, since even the usual Sunday letter did not arrive today. Enclosed a cheque on the UNION BANK OF LONDON for £87.10 for March-June and a pound in STAMPS for the cost of the meeting, which I forgot to send you on Monday.[1]

This week I read myself fairly well into Dutch-Frisian, and have discovered some quite nice philological things there. Can you discover what snieuntojowns means? It is odd, that, today, the West Frisians in many cases speak as the English write, e.g. GREAT, hearre (hear), etc. However, in most cases this is accidental and of more recent date, and Old Frisian from the same area generally differs from this.

Lizzie is on her feet again. Best greetings—have the girls gone to Paris, and what do they write about Löhrchen[2] ? And are you already a BRITON NEVER SHALL BE SLAVES[3] ?

Your

F. E.

  1. ↑ 22 March
  2. ↑ Laura Lafargue
  3. ↑ Words from the British song Rule, Britannia... An allusion to Marx's attempts to acquire British citizenship (see also this volume, p. 243).