Letter to Charles Walstone (Waldstein), December 13, 1879

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 13 December 1879


Reproduced from the original. First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 50, Moscow, 1981
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 45


MARX TO CHARLES WALSTONE (WALDSTEIN)[1]

IN LONDON

[London,] 13 December 1879

Liebes[2] Waldhörnlein,[3]

You will — I hope — be so good as to come and dine with us to-morrow (Sunday) at 2 o'clock. There will be a young Russian[4] who is worth studying, being a 'type'. Don't be frightened! He carries neither daggers nor revolvers nor explosive 'chemicals' about himself. Besides, your name does not yet figure on the 'black' list.

And now vale faveque[5]

Karl Marx

  1. ↑ The original of this letter as well as Marx's letter to Charles Walstone of 26 January 1880 (see present edition, Vol. 46) are kept in Lord Walstone's family archive. In 1968 he passed on their photocopies to the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CC CPSU, Moscow. According to Lord Walstone, the addressee was his father, the British archaeologist Charles Walstone, who at that time had his father's family name, Waldstein.
    Marx must have met Lord Walstone's father during a lecture at the British Museum.
  2. ↑ Dear
  3. ↑ Walstone's jocular name derived from the German word Waldhorn meaning French horn.
  4. ↑ Presumably N. Vasiliyev.
  5. ↑ good bye and farewell