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Letter to Karl Marx, September 2, 1864
| Author(s) | Friedrich Engels |
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| Written | 2 September 1864 |
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41
ENGELS TO MARX
IN LONDON
Manchester, 2 September 1864
Dear Moor,
I had assumed from your last letter[1] that you'd be in the depths of the Dutch fens, hence my pertinacious silence. I couldn't find your address in Holland. I sent your wife the watch and chain on 6 August, in a box, by registered mail, and trust it arrived safely.
I intend to travel from Hull to Hamburg next Thursday, the 8th, or Saturday, the 10th September, in order to take a look at OUR NEW PROPERTY in Schleswig and Holstein and shall, provided there are no passport difficulties, also go from Lübeck to Copenhagen. I shall not be returning before the end of September and, if at all feasible, shall spend a day in London on the way back.
The PARTNERSHIP business has at last been settled, and the contracts signed, so I hope to have 5 years' peace from that direction.
We have left our house in Tennant Street[2] and have been living for the past fortnight about 500 paces further along, in a somewhat larger house with 2 living-rooms downstairs; thus we have bettered ourselves after much the same fashion as you did by your last removal. The address is 86 Mornington Street, Stockport Road, Manchester. Letters to be addressed to me by name as before.
Jones's address is 52 Cross Street, Manchester. The Danes still believe, or rather fear, that a personal union will be established and, since editors Bille, of the Dagbladet, and Ploug, of the Faedrelandet, are both deputies and undoubtedly have good sources, and, since the present ministers are also good Russians, I feel convinced that powerful intrigues towards that end are being conducted by Russia. However, Monsieur Bismarck certainly has other things in view and, if he is to gain positive advantages, i.e. if he is to mediatise Schleswig-Holstein,[3] I think he will need the Augustenburg chap[4] pretty badly. This much is certain, never has Prussian dynastic policy involving the partition of Germany along the Main been so insolently advocated, and as for the rotten liberal gang, they seem to be taking quite kindly to it. Should this be the case—and I shall find out easily enough in Germany—the Prussian bourgeoisie will be giving us a tremendous lever for the next SET-TO. I am sure by the way that Eisner is right, at least about the old provinces[5] being intolerably flushed with victory. Indeed, I shall take care not to go there. It will be bad enough even on the Rhine.
To the worthy Gottfried's[6] intense alarm, I told him about Monsieur Bonaparte's ardent desire to join the Holy Alliance on the very day the matter became known. The fellow's bound to come to a bad end. To ruminate perpetually about 'business' is very aging, as I can see from Gottfried, who has much the same attitude to trade as B. has to politics, and whose train of thought is also similar. As the years go by, one dreams of retirement and, if it's not feasible, one's health suffers. N'est pas Palmerston qui veut.[7] Ce cher Bonaparte is, I should say, very much ON THE DECLINE. So much the better; once he starts to flag, he'll soon be done for.
Best wishes to the girls. But why didn't you drop me a couple of lines to say you were not going to Holland and that your wife was ill?
Your
F. E.
- ↑ ibid., p. 548.
- ↑ After the death of Mary Burns, Engels moved from 252 Hyde Road to 4 Tennant Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock where he lived in 1863-64.
- ↑ The Foreign Affairs Committees were public organisations run by the Urquhart and his supporters in a number of English cities between 1840s and 1860s, mainly with the aim of opposing Palmerston's policies.
- ↑ Friedrich of Augustenburg
- ↑ The old provinces—Brandenburg, East Prussia, West Prussia, Posen, Pomerania and Silesia, i.e. the provinces that constituted the Kingdom of Prussia before the Congress of Vienna (1815). The Rhine Province was annexed to Prussia in 1815.
- ↑ Gottfried Ermen — See this volume, p. 552.
- ↑ On 12 January 1860, Hermann Orges, editor of the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung, published a statement in that paper refuting the fabrications about him in Vogt's pamphlet Mein Prozess gegen die Allgemeine Zeitung (see also Engels' letter to Marx of 31 January 1860 in this volume).