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Letter to Friedrich Engels, March 9, 1870

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 9 March 1870


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 4, Stuttgart, 1913
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 43


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 9 March 1870

Dear FRED,

Enclosed—2 copies of the Internationale. You don't need to return them, since they have sent me 5 COPIES OF EACH NUMBER.

In No. II there is nothing by me, except for translation of the FACTS from The Irishman.[1]

As TO No. I, I had written it quickly to De Paepe as a private letter for him to work up into an article. Instead, he published it verbatim[2] adding nonsensical clauses, e.g., that the BODILY punishment of O'Donovan should be understood as—lashes with a whip!

Have you read the stuff by Huxley about the lack of difference between ANGLO-SAXON (vulgo ENGLISHMEN) and CELT?[3] He is giving his 2nd lecture on the subject next Sunday. LITTLE Dakyns has sent us TICKETS for this.

We are much DISTURBED here about the silence of the Parisians[4] since the notice of death.[5] Let's hope there has been no new misfortune.

Strohn was here the day before yesterday, and left for the Continent the same day.

Salut

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ In his article, Marx made use of the material on the death of Michael Terbert provided by The Irishman, No. 34, 19 February 1870 (see Note 556).
  2. ↑ K. Marx, The English Government and the Fenian Prisoners.
  3. ↑ Huxley's first public lecture 'The Forefathers and Forerunners of the English People' was delivered in Manchester on 9 January 1870. A detailed account of the lecture, headed 'Professor Huxley on Political Ethnology', was published in the Manchester Examiner & Times on 12 January 1870.
  4. ↑ Paul and Laura Lafargue
  5. ↑ See this volume, p. 444.