Letter to Friedrich Engels, August 18, 1858

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Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 18 August 1858


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXII, Moscow 1929
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 40
Keywords : Letter, Friedrich Engels


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 18 August 1858

Dear Engels,

If at all possible, let me have 1 ARTICLE on India or Cherbourg by Friday.[1] It's absolutely impossible for me to carry on any longer without an entremets of this kind. You will understand how bereft of material I am when I tell you that yesterday I wrote (via Ramsgate, where the fair copy was made[2]) about the SLAVE-TRADE in Cuba. On the other hand, it is now more than ever essential that I should jack up my credit a little.

Salut.

Your

K. M.

Apropos. I inserted—not directly, but through a channel viz. that of Liebknecht, who himself made use of yet another channel—Kinkel's advertisement of a trip to the LAKES in the

Neue Zeit (a German rag in London).[3] The thing caused a scandal. Kinkel now denies it. Important you should write to me about it.

  1. ↑ Jenny Marx, who usually made the fair copies of Marx's articles for the New York Daily Tribune, was in Ramsgate at the time.
  2. ↑ The article on the slave trade in Cuba written by Marx for the New-York Daily Tribune was not published.—340
  3. ↑ K. Marx, 'To the Editor of the Neue Zeit'.
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