Letter to Friedrich Engels, October 25, 1860

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 25 October 1860


First published abridged in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 2, Stuttgart, 1913 and in full in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXII, Moscow, 1929
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 25 October 1860

Dear Engels,

Herewith the letter from Weber, to whom I must therefore send ABOUT 6 talers; so ends the spree with Prussian justice.[1] You can pass on this news to Siebel.

Later on, I shall publish ABOUT one sheet ON PRUSSIAN JUSTICE[2] here in London, but not until the book[3] is safely in Germany.

During the first 4 weeks, all went very slowly at Hirschfeld's, partly because Zinn, the compositor, left him in the lurch, and also because he had a great deal to do and one of my sheets amounted to more than 2 ordinary printed sheets. However, last week I entered into a written agreement with him whereby he has got to finish by 15 November.

In the last number of Stimmen der Zeit, Kolatschek has brought the thing[4] up again in the 'Juchheisten', in which friend Lassalle, among others, comes off "orribly'.[5]

How goes it with the Navy?[6] Do you think there might actually be war this autumn?

What with proof-correcting and a host of petty things to do, I've had my hands so full that for a while I hardly had time to write to you.

Salut.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ See previous letter.
  2. ↑ Marx did not write a pamphlet on this subject.
  3. ↑ K. Marx's Herr Vogt.
  4. ↑ See this volume, pp. 206, 212.
  5. ↑ In the original: 'öklich' instead of 'eklig'.
  6. ↑ See this volume, pp. 196, 198.