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Letter to Friedrich Engels, February 9, 1859
First published: abridged in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Stuttgart, 1913 and in full in: Marx and Engels, Works, Moscow, 1929.
To Engels in Manchester
[London,] 9 February 1859[edit source]
Dear Engels,
At last a letter from Duncker today. He didnât receive the manuscript [Contribution to Critique of Political Economy] until 1 February. Not printed this week, because just completing some work or other â I donât know which â of Lassalleâs.
Enclosed a letter from Eccarius and PfÀnder from which you will see that poor Eccarius is down with consumption. This is the most tragic thing I have yet experienced here in London.
Pieper, who had been discharged as cured, is back from Bognor again and in the German hospital. This time starvation treatment. Serves him right.
I meant to send you the enclosed letters from Weydemeyer and Komp long ago. I have at last replied to them.
Dronke has been to Bonn, where one of his brothers was dying. Having obtained Flottwellâs permission, he attended a ball given by his [students'] âcorpsâ in Bonn. The little man [Dronke] has written to Dingelstedt (of Fulda), through whom he hopes to arrange a performance of a play he himself has written. In addition, the little man writes âGlasgower Briefeâ for Prutzâs Museum. I had all this news from philistine Freiligrath.
From the latter, who came to see me yesterday (I myself being confined to the house with a bad throat), I also learned that Gottfriedâs â or Hermannâs â behaviour towards ladies is invariably so ludicrous (the buffoon now supposes he need only throw down his handkerchief) that he has become an object of general dĂ©goĂ»t. Moreover, Freiligrath has now also tumbled to the fact that Gottfried feels exceptionally âfree and easyâ now that the Mockel woman is dead and â strangest of all â it now transpires that, even before the day of the funeral, philistine Freiligrath and wife had discovered brother Hermannâs âlack of concernâ.
According to Gottfried, the Hermann, to which the Prussian government has, as the Berlin National-Zeitung announces, granted a licence for postal distribution, is to cover the âlossâ to his funds occasioned by his wifeâs death.
In due course, no doubt, Mrs Daniels will become Mrs BĂŒrgers. She has written to Lina saying that âBĂŒrgers has grown still more energetic and self-confidentâ. In proof of that âself-confidenceâ she writes, âwe are delighted by Freiligrathâs poem about Mrs Kinkel, which was mutilated by the âperfidiousâ Kölnische Zeitungâ.
Steffen has written to Freiligrath asking for your address and mine as he has lost them. Steffenâs address is: W. Steffen, Harrison Square near Boston, Mass. U. St.
Salut.
Your.
K. M.