Letter to Friedrich Engels, February 20, 1863

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 20 February 1863


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 3, Stuttgart, 1913
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,]-20 February 1863

DEAR FREDERICK,

I think our best course re the Polish business would be as follows:

T h e proclamation for the workingmen, i.e. in the name of the Society,[1] should amount to one sheet of print at most, military and political TOGETHER. SO, write that first. I shall then fit mine in. The Society will print this. However, it would also be a good idea for us to deal with the subject in greater detail in a pamphlet, 5 1 2 and there you must determine the number of sheets entirely in accordance with the material. T h e diplomatic bit, which I am READY to do at any time, would in fact only be an appendix. As TO a publisher, I intend to write to Hanover IMMEDIATELY you advise me of the number of sheets.

Apropos, send me a power of attorney for Bücher re Duncker, apropos Po and Rhine.[2]

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ Marx carried out this plan, if only in part, at the end of October 1863 when he wrote a 'Proclamation on Poland by the German Workers' Educational Society in London' (present edition, Vol. 19) which was published in November as a leaflet on behalf of the Society (see Note 3).
  2. ↑ F. Engels, Po and Rhine.