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Letter to Friedrich Engels, February 14, 1860
| Author(s) | Karl Marx |
|---|---|
| Written | 14 February 1860 |
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41
MARX TO ENGELS
IN MANCHESTER
[London,] 14 February 1860
Dear FREDERICK,
Enclosed COPY of Vögele's affidavit[1] which I thought I had sent you on Saturday.[2]
Borkheim has handed me the manuscript of his narrative THE RISE, PROGRESS AND DECLINE of the Brimstone Gang.[3] He is, as I've already told you, FIRST clerk of a firm in Mark Lane; earns between £600 and £700 a year.
My correspondence with Schily is still going on, of course, since I have to CROSS-EXAMINE him on specific POINTS.
Did Lassalle post you Vogt's book[4]? In reply to his letter, I told the fool to address the thing to you.[5]
I expect to have an answer by telegraphic despatch tomorrow from Legal Counsellor Weber.[6]
There are a number of matters still to be settled tomorrow. If MEANS are available, I may possibly depart some time tomorrow. I can't say for certain, as unforeseen events may detain me a day longer. At any rate, make sure that I find all the letters and PAPERS thrown together in 'one great pile'.
The pitiable Hermann (apparently at the instigation of Kinkel, WHO IS ABOUT MARRYING AN ENGLISHWOMAN WITH £2-3000 A YEAR) did not publish the resolution adopted by the Workers' Society.[7] Mais ces messieurs y penseront!
The beastly Telegraph wrote to me again today and referred me to yesterday's piece by their beastly correspondent. I'll play the scoundrel a merry tune.
Salut.
Your
K. M.
Have not yet heard anything from Papa Blind.
- ↑ On 11 February 1860, the compositor Vögele took out an affidavit confirming, in effect, that Blind was the author of the flysheet Zur Warnung (see Note 60). Marx reproduced the affidavit in Herr Vogt (present edition, Vol. 17, p. 319).
- ↑ 11 February. Marx probably sent the affidavit without a covering letter, or the letter is no longer extant.
- ↑ Engels means an address by the Cologne Central Authority to the Communist League of 1 December 1850 ('Die Centralbehörde an den Bund'), drawn up by supporters of Marx and Engels, mainly by Bürgers. It fell into the hands of the Saxon (not Hanover) police at the arrest of League member Peter Nothjung in Leipzig on 10 May 1850 and was published, in June 1851, in the Dresdner Journal und Anzeiger and the Kölnische Zeitung (not the Hannoversche Zeitung).
- ↑ C. Vogt, Mein Prozess gegen die Allgemeine Zeitung, Geneva, 1859.
- ↑ See this volume, p. 27 (Marx's letter to Franz Duncker of 6 February 1860).
- ↑ ibid., p. 40.
- ↑ Marx followed the movement for the emancipation of peasants in Russia using a variety of sources, among them the Prussian Allgemeine Zeitung. In the present case, he presumably drew on an article 'Rußland und Polen', reprinted in the Allgemeine Zeitung of 6 December 1859 (No. 340) from the Neue Hannoversche Zeitung, and the article by the Allgemeine Zeitung's St. Petersburg correspondent 'Zur russischen Leibeigenschaftsfrage und die Finanz- Verhältnisse des Staats', Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 3 (supplement) and No. 5 (supplement), 3 and 5 January, 1860.