Letter to Pasquale Martignetti, December 21, 1885

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 21 December 1885


First published in La corrispondenza di Marx e Engels con italiani. 1848-1895, Milano, 1964
Printed according to the original
Translated from the Italian
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 47


ENGELS TO PASQUALE MARTIGNETTI

IN BENEVENTO

London, 21 December 1885

Dear Citizen,

I should be very pleased if you would undertake the translation of Marx's work Wage Labour and Capital. The information in the Socialiste[1] will barely suffice for the biography and I have therefore asked our friends in Zurich to send you a copy of the Brunswick Kalender,[2] which contains a more complete biography written by myself.[3]

Yours truly,

F. Engels

I shall of course be happy to carry out the revision, should you so desire.

  1. See present edition, Vol. 43.
  2. See this volume, p. 374.
  3. F. Engels, 'Karl Marx', Volks-Kalender, Brunswick, 1878.