Letter to Friedrich Engels, December 18, 1860

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MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 18 December 1860

Dear Frederick,

My wife is now much better. Allen thinks that the children — running two households is not only very inconvenient, but also expensive—will be able to come back on Sunday[1] or Monday. I myself shall then resume my contributions to the Tribune, which has had only 2 articles[2] in nearly 5 weeks. Let me have another one by Saturday if you can.

For the past two days, I have been confined to bed and taking medicine, but Allen says it is nothing of any consequence and I should be fit again in 3 or 4 days. Apparently, it's the result of the

EXCITEMENT, etC.

As regards your view of Szemere, I would inform you, strictly on the quiet, that I am entirely of the same mind. The really funny part is that I had proposed to him, ironically, that they should keep the Habsburgs for themselves, that Pest would be the final place of refuge for the same, etc.

Salut.

Your

K. M.

  1. 23 December
  2. See this volume, p. 229.