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Letter to Karl Friedrich Köppen, September 1, 1848
First published: in French in L'Humanité, November 1920.
To Karl Friedrich Köppen in Berlin
Cologne, 1 September 1848[edit source]
My dear Köppen,
I return your article herewith. I should already have sent it before but had lost your address in the turmoil of the removal and the mass of business this involved.[1]
Marx will have told you how often we thought of you during the sleepless night of exile. I can assure you that you were the only one of the Berliners whom we recalled with pleasure. Come to that, the sleepless night of exile was pleasurable after all and I look back on it longingly from out of this tedious philistine farce known as the German revolution! But one must be able to make sacrifices for the dear fatherland, and the greatest sacrifice is to return to that fatherland and write leading articles for this gross and boorish public. Farewell.
Tout à vous
F. Engels
- ↑ The editorial office of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung was removed at the end of August to 17 Unter Hutmacher.
There is no information about the article by Köppen who might have sent it in after meeting Marx in Berlin in August 1848 when Marx went there on business connected with the Neue Rheinische Zeitung.
By the ‘sleepless night of exile’ Engels presumably meant the time Marx and he spent abroad before the 1848 revolution.