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Letter to Friedrich Engels, August 8, 1859
| Author(s) | Karl Marx |
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| Written | 8 August 1859 |
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 40
MARX TO ENGELS
IN MANCHESTER
[London,] 8 August 1859
Dear Engels,
As a result of an attack of vomiting that has now lasted for two whole days, I am as weak as a fly and hence cannot write more than a few lines.
Would it be possible to scrape together some money for the Volk by Wednesday morning?
Last Monday (Monday is always settlement day; i.e. a week ago today) the toted deficit had been reduced to no more than about £2. (This did not, of course, include the charge for No. 13, which only has to be met today, and still less for No. 14, where payment doesn't fall due until today week. The issues are, of course, only charged at the end of the week following publication.) So things are in good shape. But today there is further expenditure to be met, in addition to the usual £1 extra (15/- for Lessner, 5 for the OFFICE). I myself am under so much PRESSURE that I cannot at this moment advance a single FARTHING and am, moreover, wasting an inordinate amount of time over the business. As for philistine Freiligrath, he imagines that he is giving adequate proof of his 'convictions' by maintaining a 'neutral' attitude towards ourselves and the Hermann.
Ledru and L. Blanc have united to publish a paper, the Union Républicaine. It is to appear at the beginning of next month from the same press as the Volk, and would benefit the latter in as much as Hollinger would then print by machine instead of by hand as heretofore.[1] It makes the continued existence of the Volk all the more essential, by the by.
Later on (as soon as I'm fit again), I shall write to Germany about the business. And to Borchardt too?
To make the thing a PAYING proposition more quickly, fresh outlays would be necessary in a town like London: errand-boys besides Lessner, etc.
Strohn not back yet? No answer yet from Duncker, the swine? Regards to Lupus and Gumpert.
Salut.
Your
K. M.
- ↑ The project to publish the Union Républicaine did not materialise. So this volume, p. 484.—480