Letter to Friedrich Engels, March 22, 1859

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 22 March 1859


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 40


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London, 22 March 1859]

Dear Engels,

Herewith Eccarius' letter. Unfortunately he had to return to his tailor's sweat-shop for which, or so it seems to me, he is by no means sufficiently recovered. I wrote about the Reform Bill today;[1] you should write (if your eyes [are alright], as I hope—otherwise, OF COURSE, DONT THINK or IT) about the likelihood of war.[2] This I regard as necessary, if the rascals on the Tribune are not to reprint anything.[3] Nothing from Berlin. Only 3 proof-sheets received[4] in 8 weeks.

Salut.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ Besides 'The New British Reform Bill' (see present edition, Vol. 16), Marx wrote two more articles on the 1859 Reform Bill, on 22 March and 1 April 1859, but they were not published in the New-York Daily Tribune and have not reached us.—406, 411
  2. ↑ In response to this request Engels wrote the article 'War Inevitable'.
  3. ↑ Marx has in mind cases when the New-York Daily Tribune reprinted articles from the London Times.—406
  4. ↑ of Marx's A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy