Letter to Sibylle Hess, October 25, 1877

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 25 October 1877


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVI, Moscow, 1935
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 45


MARX TO SIBYLLE HESS[1]

IN PARIS

London, 25 October 1877

41 Maitland Park Road, N. W.

Dear Mrs Hess,

Very many thanks from myself as well as from Engels for the two copies we have been sent of the 'dynamic theory of matter'.[2]

We are both of the opinion that the work of our late friend has very considerable scientific merit and does credit to our party. So, quite apart from our personal relations with an ally of many years' standing, we would regard it as our duty to explain the significance of his work and to do all we could for its sales.

Are the two parts announced in Hess' foreword also available in manuscript?

You will not take it amiss if I enclose herewith the price of the two copies, the point being, not so much your personal expense, as the cost of the undertaking.

Yours very sincerely,

Karl Marx

I shall write to Petersburg and New York on the subject of the work.

  1. ↑ This letter was published in English for the first time in: K. Marx, On History and People. Arranged and edited, with an introduction and new translations, by Saul K. Padover, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, [1977].
  2. ↑ by Moses Hess