Letter to Friedrich Engels, October 25, 1860

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MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 25 October 1860

Dear Engels,

Herewith the letter from Weber, to whom I must therefore send ABOUT 6 talers; so ends the spree with Prussian justice.[1] You can pass on this news to Siebel.

Later on, I shall publish ABOUT one sheet ON PRUSSIAN JUSTICE[2] here in London, but not until the book[3] is safely in Germany.

During the first 4 weeks, all went very slowly at Hirschfeld's, partly because Zinn, the compositor, left him in the lurch, and also because he had a great deal to do and one of my sheets amounted to more than 2 ordinary printed sheets. However, last week I entered into a written agreement with him whereby he has got to finish by 15 November.

In the last number of Stimmen der Zeit, Kolatschek has brought the thing[4] up again in the 'Juchheisten', in which friend Lassalle, among others, comes off "orribly'.[5]

How goes it with the Navy[6]? Do you think there might actually be war this autumn?

What with proof-correcting and a host of petty things to do, I've had my hands so full that for a while I hardly had time to write to you.

Salut.

Your

K. M.

  1. See previous letter.
  2. Marx did not write a pamphlet on this subject.
  3. K. Marx's Herr Vogt.
  4. See this volume, pp. 206, 212.
  5. In the original: 'öklich' instead of 'eklig'.
  6. See this volume, pp. 196, 198.