Letter to Friedrich Engels, June 29, 1855

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 29 June 1855


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 2, Stuttgart 1913
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 39


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

London, 29 June [1855]

Dear Engels,

When you have read the accompanying scraps, you will say: multa INSTEAD OF multum.[1] And rightly so. I was unable to find the most important item, viz. the number and calibre of guns for Spain, although I leafed rapidly through the whole book of Ordenanzas. You'll find something in this respect about the mountain artillery in one of the notes. To judge by a passage in the Portuguese Revista militar, Spanish artillery is largely on a French footing as regards matériel.

I have got together all manner of stuff, some of which may be of use.

Salut

Your

K. M.

Where Minutoli (Baron) quoted, reference is to his book: Spanien und seine fortschreitende Entwicklung etc., Berlin, 1852.

I believe it's that swine of a policeman. Was and still may be Prussian Consul General in SPAIN and Portugal.

  1. ↑ Non multa, sed multum (not many, but much)