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Letter to Charles Walstone (Waldstein), January 26, 1880

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 26 January 1880


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 50, Moscow, 1981
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 46

MARX TO CHARLES WALSTONE (WALDSTEIN)

IN LONDON

[London,] 26 January 1880

Dear Waldhorn,[1]

If I don't find you in, I shall leave this note for you. I am prepared to come at 7 o'clock on Wednesday evening, WIND AND WEATHER PERMIT-TING. THAT IS TO SAY, IF IT BE NOT TOO COLD FOR THE PRESENT CONDITIONS OF MY corpus delicti[2] For in this world all promises are relative.

Meanwhile, salut

Your

Moor

  1. ↑ Waldhorn (French horn) is a jocular name given to Walstone by Marx.
  2. ↑ A pun on corpus (body) and corpus delicti (substance of the offence).