Letter to Nikolai Danielson, September 19, 1879

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 19 September 1879


First published, in Russian, in Minuvshiye No. 1, St Petersburg, 1908
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 45


MARX TO NIKOLAI DANIELSON

IN ST PETERSBURG

London, 19 September 1879
41 Maitland Park Road, Haverstock Hill, N. W.

My dear Sir,

I have just returned to London after almost two months rustication in the isle of Jersey[1] and at other sea-side places.[2] I was forced to do so and suspend all work during that time on medical advice because of nervous derangement. For this reason I was also unable to do justice to the mental food you were so kind as to forward me, but now I feel much reinvigorated and shall set at work with a will.

The book of Kowalewsky I got from himself.[3] He is one of my 'scientific' friends who every year comes to London in order to explore the treasures of the British Museum.

You will receive a longer letter so soon as I have disposed of some urgent work accumulated during my absence. In the meantime, with my best wishes

Yours sincerely

A. Williams[4]

  1. ↑ Marx and his daughter Eleanor (Tussy) left for Jersey on 8 August and stayed there until 20 August 1879.
  2. ↑ On 21 August 1879, Marx interrupted his stay in Jersey (see Note 494) and arrived in Ramsgate to join his daughter Jenny and her newborn son Edgar. He returned to London on 17 September.
  3. ↑ In his letter to Marx of 30 August (11 September) 1879, Danielson wrote about the publication of the first part of Maxim Kovalevsky's 'very interesting work' Communal Landownership and the Causes, Course and Consequences of Its Disintegration and offered to send a copy to Marx if he had not yet received one from the author. Marx began a study of the work in October, making detailed notes on the nature of the commune and its place and socio-economic role in different epochs and among different nations.
  4. ↑ Marx's pseudonym