Letter to Friedrich Engels, April 19, 1859

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Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 19 April 1859


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 2, Stuttgart, 1913
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 40
Keywords : Letter, Friedrich Engels


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 19 April [1859]

Dear Engels,

1. £5 ARRIVED. BEST THANKS. 2. I shall look out the Tribunes for you and send them IN THE COURSE OF THIS WEEK.

3. The Tribune which arrived today (dated 5 April) contains an attack (enclosed),[1] probably by some idiot of a Hungarian, which you should answer by Friday at the latest. The ANSWER of the 14TH INST[2] to which the idiot alludes is not to hand. However his own REPETITION will tell you everything he said in HIS SHORT ANSWER.[3]

4. What did the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung say about your Tribune articles[4]?

5. Yesterday I saw Duncker's advertisement for Po and Rhine in the Hamburger Correspondent

6. I myself have so far received 8 proof-sheets.[5] So the thing's approaching its end, but no doubt it will be another fortnight before Duncker sends any more.

7. Ad vocem[6] Lassalle, I shall deal with this inter alia in a longer letter tomorrow.

Salut. Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ [A.] Asbôth, '"Chances of the Impending War". To the Editor of The N. Y. Tribune'. New York Daily Tribune, No. 5602, 5 April 1859.
  2. ↑ [A.] A[sbôth,] '"The Austrian Hold on Italy". To the Editor of The N. Y. Tribune', New York Daily Tribune, No. 5581, 11 March 1859.
  3. ↑ On 5 April 1859 the New-York Daily Tribune, No. 5602, printed a reader's letter signed 'Asboth' with comments on Engels' article 'Chances of the Impending War' (see present edition, Vol. 16). The author referred to an earlier letter of his, about Engels' article 'The Austrian Hold on Italy' (see Vol. 16). That other letter, signed 'A', appeared in the Tribune, No. 5581, on 11 March 1859 (in Asbôth's second letter the date was given incorrectly as '14th inst'). The later letter largely repeated the first. Asbôth considered the assessment of Austria's possibilities in the impending war given by Engels in his two articles insufficiently thorough and exaggerated.—417
  4. ↑ In a letter which has not reached us, Engels may have informed Marx of a review of American newspapers published in a supplement to the Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 102, on 12 April 1859. Much space in the review was devoted to the New-York Daily Tribune which, in the words of the author, had published 'a number of interesting military-scientific articles on the North Italian theatre of war'. The review stressed that the Tribune editors were strongly influenced by the ideas of German revolutionaries.—417
  5. ↑ K. Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
  6. ↑ As to
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