Letter to Friedrich Engels, February 20, 1863

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MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,]-20 February 1863

DEAR FREDERICK,

I think our best course re the Polish business would be as follows:

T h e proclamation for the workingmen, i.e. in the name of the Society,[1] should amount to one sheet of print at most, military and political TOGETHER. SO, write that first. I shall then fit mine in. The Society will print this. However, it would also be a good idea for us to deal with the subject in greater detail in a pamphlet, 5 1 2 and there you must determine the number of sheets entirely in accordance with the material. T h e diplomatic bit, which I am READY to do at any time, would in fact only be an appendix. As TO a publisher, I intend to write to Hanover IMMEDIATELY you advise me of the number of sheets.

Apropos, send me a power of attorney for Bücher re Duncker, apropos Po and Rhine.[2]

Your

K. M.

  1. Marx carried out this plan, if only in part, at the end of October 1863 when he wrote a 'Proclamation on Poland by the German Workers' Educational Society in London' (present edition, Vol. 19) which was published in November as a leaflet on behalf of the Society (see Note 3).
  2. F. Engels, Po and Rhine.