Letter to Friedrich Engels, August 24, 1871

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Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 24 August 1871


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. IV, Stuttgart, 1919
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44
Keywords : Letter, Friedrich Engels


MARX TO ENGELS

IN LONDON

[Brighton,] 24 August [1871]

Dear FRED,

Your letter with the £5—for which many thanks—arrived at midday, by which time I had already sent my telegram.[1]

I shall write a few lines to New York tomorrow.[2] The appeal can be made after my return to London (next Saturday[3]).

You can see the abject collapse of The Public Opinion[4] from the letter which I have just sent to my wife today.[5]

So Lafargue is at liberty![6]

Salut.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ The text of Marx's telegram is not known.
  2. ↑ See next letter.
  3. ↑ 26 August
  4. ↑ On 19 August 1871 the newspaper Public Opinion (apparently Engels had a copy of this issue already on 18 August) published, under the title 'A German View of the International', an account of the leader 'Die Internationale' from the National-Zeitung, No. 351, 30 July 1871. On August 26 the Editor of Public Opinion published Marx's protest against the libels contained in the account (see present edition, Vol. 22, pp. 393-94) as well as an apology, as demanded by Marx.
  5. ↑ This letter by Marx has not been found.
  6. ↑ Early in August 1871 Lafargue had to flee to Spain in order to escape persecution by the Versailles Government. On 11 August he was arrested in Huesca on the orders of the Thiers government, but released 10 days later.
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