Letter to Friedrich Adolph Sorge, August 30, 1880

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 30 August 1880


First published in Briefe und Auszüge aus Briefen von Joh. Phil. Becker, Jos. Dietzgen, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx u. A. an F.A. Sorge und Andere, Stuttgart, 1906
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 46


MARX TO FRIEDRICH ADOLPH SORGE

IN HOBOKEN

[Ramsgate,] 30 August 1880

Dear Sorge,

I am writing from Ramsgate, where I now am with my wife; be- fore that I took her up to Manchester for a consultation with my friend Dr Gumpert. She is suffering from a dangerous liver complaint.

In consequence of our wanderings I only got your letter very be- latedly. I am entirely of your opinion. If you can't get hold of any money — i.e. S 200 — in YANKEELAND, the matter will have to be dropped.

What the position is here will be evident to you if only from the fact that the Egalité went under for want of 3,000 francs.

I will, for form's sake, let Liebknecht know about the affair.

The article from The Sun received with many thanks. Though he may have the best of intentions, the man nevertheless shows that he doesn't understand the first rudiments of the matter about which he writes.

De minimis non curat lex,[1] and among those minima I number, inter alia, the priestly Douai.

With warmest regards,

Your

Karl Marx

  1. ↑ The law does not concern itself with trifles.