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Letter to Karl Marx, May 10, 1860
| Author(s) | Friedrich Engels |
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| Written | 10 May 1860 |
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41
ENGELS TO MARX
IN LONDON
Manchester, 10 May 1860
Dear Moor,
My brother[1] left this evening because my mother is seriously ill and sent for him by telegram.
Matters have been pretty well settled with Ermen. My family is leaving capital amounting to £10,000 in the business, which it will have to make over to me when I become a partner. My material position will improve straight away, or at least the percentage of my share. I shall tell you all about this when I come down at Whitsun. Providing, that is, that everything's settled by then, and nothing has happened to my mother, so that I am, in fact, able to come. But I'm rather afraid she may have caught the infection from my father. I feel as though typhoid fever has now got a grip on our family.
About the other points, tomorrow. Siebel wants to know whether, amongst the papers he brought back, you have found the pamphlet, Die Sphinx auf dem französischen Kaiserthron; Schily has noticed that it's missing and is afraid he may have lost it.
Saw Lupus yesterday. The bone's still troubling him, and rheumatism into the bargain. It almost looks as though Gumpert's intervention is bringing the matter to a head, which is just as well, since it will be over all the sooner, and then L. will be back on his pins again.
Regards to the FAMILY.
Your
F. E.
- ↑ Marx's note to the copy of the letter in his notebook.—Emil Engels