Letter to Friedrich Engels, July 29, 1870

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 29 July 1870


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 44


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 29 July 1870

Dear FRED,

You will see from the enclosed that so FAR the Pall Mall business is quite satisfactory and your first article[1] will appear this evening. T h e only reason for displeasure is that MR Greenwood (to whom I have not yet mentioned your name, BY THE BY) has made no reference to the TERMS even though IN MY FIRST LETTER TO HIM I made a specific inquiry about them. 1 7 O n the other hand, Thieblin (i.e. Taran) said to me on his departure for the Continent and at his LEAVETAKING from me that payment was made as a matter of course at the e n d of each month.

At all events it seems to me wisest TO GO ON for a few more articles so that we have a firm case before issuing an OFFICIAL NOTE on this punctum[2]

I went to see Smith 24 yesterday. I learned there that no one in London made inquiries about you in Manchester, because your LANDLORD also has a SEAT near Manchester and desired to make his own inquiry there. However, it would be better to write to him and speed the matter up. At all events I understand that no 'third party' has intervened.

Salut.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ F. Engels, Notes on the War.
  2. ↑ point