Letter to the editor of the New Yorker Volkszeitung, March 1883

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 16 March 1883


First published in the New Yorker Volkszeitung, No. 66, March 17, 1883
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 24
Collection(s): New Yorker Volkszeitung

London, March 16, 1883

Karl Marx's death occurred at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of Wednesday, the 14th inst, at Argen teuil, France. For several weeks Marx had been suffering from bronchitis, this being further complicated by an abscess of the lung, and ultimately an internal haemorrhage put an end to his life. His death was an easy and painless one.

Frederick Engels