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Letter to Friedrich Engels, February 25, 1867
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First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 3, Stuttgart, 1913
Published in English in full for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 42
Extract published in Marx Engels on Literature and Art, Progress Publishers, 1976
Published in English in full for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 42
Extract published in Marx Engels on Literature and Art, Progress Publishers, 1976
Collection(s): Marx Engels on Literature and Art
Letter to Engels in Manchester
February 25, 1867[edit source]
Dear Fred,
Best thanks for £20.
Letter from Dr Kugelmann enclosed.[1] At this moment, I can write you but a few lines at this moment, as the landlord’s agent is here and I must play opposite him in the role of Mercadet in Balzac’s comedy.[2] Apropos of Balzac, I advise you to read his Le Chef-d'Œuvre Inconnu and Melmoth reconcilie. They are two little chefs d'œuvres full of delightful irony.
Salut
Your
K. M.
- ↑ In his letter to Marx of 15 February 1867 Ludwig Kugelmann enclosed a notice from the Hanover liberal newspaper Zeitung für Norddeutschland, No. 5522, of the same day which reported Marx’s intention to go to the Continent with the alleged aim of preparing a Polish insurrection. Sending the text of his refutation (‘A Correction’) Marx considered its publication all the more necessary since he did plan to visit Germany to take the manuscript of Volume One of Capital to the publisher Otto Meissner in Hamburg and to agree about the terms of its publication.
On 21 February 1867 the Zeitung für Norddeutschland was forced to print a refutation of its fabrication about Marx’s intention to take an active part in the preparations for a future insurrection in Poland. On 22 February Kugelmann sent the published refutation to Marx. This was probably what Marx told Engels in his letter of 25 February. - ↑ Le faiseur