Letter to Friedrich Engels, August 22, 1870

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Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 22 August 1870


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First published abridged in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. IV, Stuttgart, 1913 and in full in MEGA, Abt. IIl, Bd. 4, Berlin, 1931

Extract published in Marx Engels on Literature and Art, Progress Publishers, 1976;

Published in English in full for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44
Collection(s): Marx Engels on Literature and Art
Keywords : Letter, Friedrich Engels

To Engels in Manchester

London, August 22, 1870[edit source]

DEAR FRED,

The onslaughts of the rheumatism were so severe that the family council resolved to send me to London to consult Dr Maddison. Hence went to London on Saturday afternoon from where I am returning to Ramsgate today.

Consulted Maddison yesterday. Says it is a severe form of SCIATICA. Prescribed medicine and also some stuff to rub in. Sojourn by the sea is beneficial to my GENERAL STATE OF HEALTH which is somewhat impaired by my sleeplessness. He is in favour of taking a hot sea-water bath on very warm days.

In Paris they seem concerned only to keep the population at bay until the necessary measures have been taken to make the interim secure for the TRUSTEES of the Orléans.

Salut

Your

K. M.


Did you read the lousy letter from Louis Blanc?[1] The essence of patriotism is to remain passive so as to force the Bonapartists to shoulder the entire responsibility.

That Scottish jackass Elcho seems to imagine that he is the British Moltke.

Freiligrath. “Hurrah! Germania!” Neither “god” nor the “Gaul” are missing from this laboriously long-winded song.

I'd rather be a kitten and cry miaow
Than such a rhyming-balled-monger![2]

  1. ↑ L. Blanc, 'Lettres de Londres. 14 aoĂ»t 1870', Le Temps, No. 3460, 19 August 1870.
  2. ↑ Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, Act III, Scene 1.
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