Letter to Friedrich Engels, May 28, 1859

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 28 May 1859


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 2, Stuttgart, 1913
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 40


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 28 May [1859]

Dear Engels,

Herewith a letter I have received from Dana. What should I answer?

Apropos. I have just learned from Biskamp, on the authority of the CLOWN[1] himself, that Bruno Bauer was definitely in the pay of Russia. He received 300 friedrichsdors from von Budberg, the Russian ambassador. T h e CLOWN was brought in as accomplice. Bruno dropped the thing because Budberg didn't treat him 'respectfully' and left him to[2] in the antichambre. He came to England for the purpose of attempting, with his brother—par nobile fratrum[3] —a similar transaction with the English government. Fell through, OF COURSE. WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THIS?

Salut.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ Edgar Bauer
  2. ↑ cool down
  3. ↑ a noble pair of brothers (Horace, Satires, II, III, 243)