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Letter to George Julian Harney, October 5, 1849
First published: in Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, 1934.
To George Julian Harney in London
Accepting Marx’s suggestion to move to London Engels had to go via Piedmont, as he risked being arrested in France and more so in Germany. On 5 October 1849 he arrived in Genoa, and on the following day left for England on a British schooner via Gibraltar and the Bay of Biscay. The voyage lasted nearly five weeks. About 12 November, Engels arrived in London as was reported in the item: ‘London, 14. Nov.’ by the Westdeutsche Zeitung, No. 154, 20 November 1849.
The English original of the present letter was first printed in the Harney Papers Assen, 1969.
Genoa, 5 October 1849[edit source]
My dear Harney,
You will have got the few lines I sent you through Colonel Willich.[1] This is to inform you, and by you Marx, that I am this morning arrived here in Genoa, and that, wind and weather favourable, I am going under sail for London to-morrow morning on board the English schooner Cornish Diamond, Capt-n Stevens. My journey will be of about 4 or 5 weeks so that by the middle of November I shall be in London.
I am very happy to have found so soon an opportunity of leaving this damned police atmosphere — indeed I never saw it so organised as here in Piedmont.
Ever truly thine
F. Engels
- ↑ This letter has not been found.