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Dear Mr Engels,
Moor wants to know whether you are coming here for Easter as we would all so very much like. In that case he would not send you the BLUE BOOKS.[38] Please drop us a line to say whether you are coming. Then we could take the thing to the PARCELS COMPANY on Monday. I have just posted your article.[522] Chaley[3] is VERY BUSY with the KARS PAPERS b and is dictating to a somewhat seedy-looking Pieper. What do you make of the scandals in Berlin? Have you read the report from the Berlin correspondent[12] in today's Times?A
Now we know the reason for the Kreuz-Zeitung's sackcloth-and-ashes LEADERS.
I also have a bone to pick just now with the Minister of the Interiore about the little business of my inheritance. You will remember that my late uncle's' effects included a mass of letters and manuscripts belonging to my grandfather,g who was War Minister to the Duke of Brunswick. The Prussian State, with Mr von Scharnhorst for intermediary, had already entered into negotiations with my father[11] with a view to purchasing these manuscripts which contain material on thq military history of the Seven Years War.[300] Then along comes my brother — and in the final statement relating to the estate I find the following curious entry: As regards the books which were found, the Minister of
[11] Karl Marx - b K. Marx, 'The Fall of Kars'. - c Probably G. B. Wilkinson - d 'From Our Own Correspondent. Berlin, March 25', The Times, No. 22327, 28 March 1856. - e Ferdinand von Westphalen, Jenny Marx's step-brother - f Heinrich Georg von Westphalen - g Christien Heinrich Philipp von Westphalen - h Ludwig von Westphalen State has, 'on grounds of piety', taken over the same for the sum of 10 talers. He had the comparatively worthless portion sold by auction in Brunswick for 11 talers and now, without asking, takes over, out of piety, the more valuable, which he has valued at 10 talers, but debits me with the cost of carriage from Brunswick to Berlin. Funny sort of piety! But now for the real casus belli. In addition, he gets Florencourt, the chief clerk, to write:
'Besides the books, a large number of papers, amongst them a number of the late Landdrost von Westphalen's manuscripts — some on military history — have also come to light. The latter are, however^ for the most part exceedingly incomplete and defective and it seems improbable that the same are of any real literary interest.'
So they imagine that, without sending me a legal inventory and without having the papers valued, they can appropriate them by a
coup de main. I strongly suspect that my brother, fired by patriotic zeal, promptly presented the manuscripts to the State, the more so in view of my mother'sa letter, in which she tells me she had already written to them about the value of the papers and asked what they intended to do with them. Their silence is very peculiar. He believes that I, like the rest of my submissive sisters,b will simply leave everything to him, the mighty 'Cheeef of the family. But there he's mistaken.
I have begun by making 'discreet inquiries' so that bit by bit I can lay claim to my 'PROPERTY'.
I shall be curious to see what they answer. With Berlin in its present state of excitation it would be very easy for us to create a scandal. But out of consideration for my mother we shall tread somewhat cautiously before we start one.
We hope to see you here next week.
With cordial regards, yours,
Jenny Marx
3. Jenny Marx to Engels. 31 July 1857
2. Jenny Marx to Engels. About 12 April 1857
Dear Mr Engels,
One invalid is writing for another by ordre du mufti.[2] Chaley'sb
head hurts him almost everywhere, terrible tooth-ache, pains in the ears, head, eyes, throat and God knows what else. Neither opium pills nor creosote do any good. The tooth has got to come out and he jibs at the idea. Now I am appealing to you to step into the breach with an article for Friday. No matter what subject. *There was, for instance, the sending of troops and ships for China, there was also a change in the organisation of the Russian army, or Bonaparte or Switzerland or yarn or anything else. One column will do.*c Assuming, of course, that you've got over your own eye-trouble. If you possibly can, drop us a note to let us know whether you are able to do the article. Did the eye lotion help at all?
Warm regards from
Jenny Marx
JENNY MARX TO ENGELS[524]
IN WATERLOO NEAR MANCHESTER
[London, 31 July 1857]
Dear Mr Engels,
The wine has just arrived. The children's exultation knew no end. The girls examined the bottles very closely and found the sherry sealed in green and the port in pale lilac. The Bordeaux cheers us with its red smile. Tussy a set to work at once on the hamper and now she is sitting in it as in a little hut packed in straw and hay. Let me convey to you, dear Mr Engels, our warmest thanks for your great kindness. I am so weak and wasted. The wine will do me a world of good.
We are all so very worried about your indisposition and this fresh cold you have caught. But a cold is unavoidable at the beginning of a stay by the seaside. The evenings are already quite cool. So see that you dress especially warmly in the evenings. Karl is very much affected by your indisposition. He would very much like to go and see you but it is absolutely out of the question just now and that annoys him so much. Just leave the 'drudgery' for the time being.
Karl is BUSY shaping the INDIAN NEWS into an article.b Dear little Jenny and Laura are now replacing me in my capacity as secretary. They have ousted me altogether with the chi-i-ief of the household.
On Tuesday morning0 a cab stopped in front of our door, and who do you think stepped out? Conrad Schramm, whom we thought dead long ago. That FOOL Seiler had already written an obituary notice about him in the evening papers. The poor fellow is very very unwell. A real picture of misery. Yesterday Karl got him admitted to the German hospital, where he is being very well looked after for £1 a WEEK. In his mind, by the way, Schramm is the same as of old, just as he was in his early, good period, when we all liked him for his buoyancy and FRANKNESS. He is continually cracking very good jokes about God and the world. But of the latter, so he thinks, he must soon take his leave. Fortunately he has kept free of the 'American clarity' by which old Mirbach and mv brother Edgar distinguished themselves so very much.
Karl will be writing tomorrow.d Warmest greetings from all of us.
Your
Jenny Marx
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4. Jenny Marx to Engels. About 14 August 1857
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JENNY MARX TO ENGELS[525]
IN WATERLOO NEAR LIVERPOOL
[London, about 14 August 1857]
Dear Mr Engels,
We are all so pleased to hear that you are getting better again and feeling stronger. But Moor still insists that the real way to cure your illness is prolonged dosage with iron. He has been conscientiously studying medicine at the Museum,a and all modern doctors prescribe it and rate it above cod-liver oil; they are thus wholly in agreement with English doctors who, after years of practice, have come to the same opinion. By the by, he begs you most urgently not to overtax your brain with the work for Dana. Loafing and dozing and doing nothing are just as necessary as
IRON.
No doubt you will have had the two further letters he addressed to Manchester.b One contained NOTICES about ARMIES, the other about the Armada.[180]
A few evenings ago that clown Edgar Bauer came to see us; truly a dried cod — without any cod-liver oil and on top of that with pretensions to wit So frightful were his EFFORTS that I almost fainted, while Karl was sick — not just figuratively but in fact.
Jones has lost his wife and is now happy as a sandboy; he hails all INDIANS as Kossuths and applauds the INDIAN PATRIOTS.[526] His opponent, the high-minded Richard Hart, a PAID Urquhartist, is now a lawyer at the Coal Hole. Karl heard him pleading there.
I hope your next letter will bring yet more good news. We are all so very anxious about you.
The wine suits me splendidly. The sherry is truly excellent. The port seems not quite so good, but I like it particularly on account of its sweetness. It will put me to rights again.
With warm regards,
Jenny Marx
5. Jenny Marx to Conrad Schramm. 8 December 1857
IN ST. HÉLIER, JERSEY
[London,] 8 December [1857] 9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, Hampstead
Dear Mr Schramm,
It is so long since we have heard from you that we are all most eager for news. We often talk about you and, more keenly than anything else, regret our inability to help beguile and enliven somewhat your long, solitary winter days and hours.
If it isn't too much trouble, do let us have a sign of life some time.—What do you feel about the general mess? Wouldn't you say there was something really quite exhilarating about the way the rotten old structure is crashing and tumbling down? It is to be hoped that your relations aren't yet using the crisis as a pretext for turning their backs on you and hence that you yourself have not as yet suffered any material ill-effects. Though the American crisis has touched our purse all too appreciably, in as much as Karl is writing for the Tribune only once instead of twice a week, all its European correspondents except Bayard Taylor and Karl having been given their notice, you can nevertheless imagine how HIGH UP the Moor is. He has recovered all his wonted facility and capacity for work, as well as the liveliness and buoyancy of a spirit long since blighted by great sorrow, the loss of our beloved child,0
whose death I shall never cease to mourn in my heart. By day Karl works for his living and by night at the completion of his political economy.[250] Now, when the times require this work, and it has come to be a necessity, it will, no doubt, find some wretched publisher. Already not only we, but also Lupus and Steffen have felt the immediate impact of the crisis. The former has lost the better part of his lessons because the house has gone bankrupt, and the latter was no longer able to remain in Brighton because the Indian business[178] put an abrupt end to his instruction of the Indian CADETS. On top of that, his sister lost what little money she had through the faillite* of a banker. Little Dronke has started up a business of his own in Glasgow. I believe that all the ranting in the Glaswegian press against 'unscrupulous people who start up businesses without any capital whatsoever' is directed against the little fellow. For the moment Freiligrath is still securely ensconced in his diminutive Credit mobilier. But if the sinister rumours about the Parisian Crédit mobilier and its steady decline prove true, he too will soon go tumbling after and have to bid farewell to his manager's desk. So far, the crisis would not appear to have made any deep impression on our good, honest friend Liebknecht, or at least n'a-t-elle pas encore frappé son physique'; he still retains unimpaired his notorious, fearsome, famous, fabulous appetite and his pristine love for a RASHER [OF] BACON.
Yesterday we heard from Engels in Manchester.b He says: Among our local philistines the crisis has induced a strong desire for the bottle, no one can bear to stay at home, alone with his cares and his family, the clubs are livening up, and the consumption of liquor is rising sharply. The worse of a jam a chap is in, the more frenzied his efforts to cheer himself up. And then, the morning after, what more striking example of remorse, both alcoholic and moral! In Manchester, 8 or 9 manufacturers have already come a cropper in the past few days. But nowhere do things look so splendid as in Hamburg. Never has panic assumed so perfect and classic a form. The house of Ulberg and Cramer, whose debts when they failed amounted to 12,000,000 banco marks (of which 7 million were bills on themselves!), had a capital of not more than 300,000 marks!! Everything there is now worthless, utterly worthless, save for silver and gold. Last week also saw the failure of Christian Matthias Schröder. J. H. Schröder & Co. in London telegraphed saying that, if 2 million marks would be enough, he would send the equivalent in silver. Came the reply: 3 millions or nothing; he couldn't spare the 3 millions and Christian Matthias crashed. The big American house which, after 2 days of negotiation with the Bank of England, recently obtained a million-pound advance, thereby saving its skin, belonged to Mr Peabody.
This 4th JULY ANNIVERSARY DINNER MAN[246] calls to mind that lout Heinzen. Although the crisis has whittled down his Pionier to half its former size (despite the collaboration of student Karl Blind, that greatest of revolutionary statesmen), the rascal still continues to maintain that 'crises are mere Marxian inventions and figments of the brain'. Again, this gobbler-up of communists calls to mind red Becker," who has now been released, and this means, dear Mr Schramm, that willy-nilly you will have to make giant strides across the ocean with me, from Europe to America and back again, since with red Becker we are back once more in the dear Fatherland, the violet which will not, on this occasion, escape with a black, or rather blue, eye — back, indeed, in dear old Cologne, so that I cannot resist telling you something about our old friend Mevissen and his family. Quite a short while since, old Leiden lost 2 children from consumption, then Mrs Mevissen, while one of his sons lost his life when the Pacifique went down.
You can imagine how sullen and sulky all the democrats are at the moment. For now that they are again faced with the much abhorred knife-and-fork problem, and can no longer lay all the blame on princes and tyrants, there must needs be an end to political fiddle-faddle and ale-house oratory.
But now my chatter has lasted so long that it's time for me to bid you adieu. Warmest regards from myself and the girls, who are growing up to be so sweet and lovable and charming.
Your
Jenny Marx
Apropos. We have photographs of Freiligrath and Engels. If it's not too much trouble, will you have one done of yourself for us? Karl would so much like to have likenesses of his best friends around him.
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6. Jenny Marx to Engels. 9 April 1858
JENNY MARX TO ENGELS[527]
IN MANCHESTER
[London, 9 April 1858]
Dear Mr Engels,
For the past week Karl has been so unwell as to be quite incapable of writing. He believes you will already have deduced from the laboured style of his most recent lettera that his bile and liver are again in a state of rebellion. I trust his medicines will finally take effect. The worsening of his condition is largely attributable to mental unrest and agitation which now, of course, after the conclusion of the contract with the publisher b are greater than ever and increasing daily, since he finds it utterly impossible to bring the work to a close. I now also intend to write straight away to the little Berlin Jewc who this time has proved a CLEVER manager. The children are well. Unfortunately they had to stay indoors all through the Easter holidays. The weather was too ghastly and the perpetual rain made our clayey soil so soft and muddy that it was like having the whole of Böckeburg clinging to one's soles. The Guardians with the two very interesting articles on France arrived today. From this we gather that you, too, are in Manchester and haven't risked an Easter TRIP. But fox-hunting no doubt?
Warmest regards from us all.
Your
Jenny Marx
Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXII, Moscow, 1929
7. Jenny Marx to Ferdinand Lassalle. 9 April 1858[528]a
Dear Mr Lassalle,
Since Karl last wrote to youb the liver complaint from which he was already suffering at the time — unfortunately it recurs every spring — has got so much worse that he has had to dose himself constantly. Today he feels quite incapable of writing and has therefore asked me to convey to you his heartfelt thanks for your kind efforts on his behalf. Nor can I help but express my pleasure at the successful conclusion of the contract, from which I gather that you are not yet completely engrossed in theoretical works and that, besides immersing yourself in Heraclitus (which I, too, have been studying a little), you have still retained your practical aptitudes and remained, as the English say, 'A CLEVER MANAGER'. Karl would long since have written to you at length about your work, but it's so difficult for him to write at all. The mental unrest and agitation he feels through not being able to bring his work to a close all at one go contribute greatly, of course, to the aggravation of his condition, likewise the tiresome work for our 'DAILY BREAD', which is another thing that certainly can't be deferred. However we hope that he'll be able to deliver the manuscriptl on time.
As soon as he feels a little better he will write to you and, in the meantime, perhaps you will make do with this brief note of mine.
With warm regards
Jenny Marx
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8. Jenny Marx to Marx. About 9 May 1858
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JENNY MARX TO MARX[529]
IN MANCHESTER
[London, about 9 May 1858]
My darling Karl,
I'm sorry I haven't anything better to send you than Sch[...]a
Roller'sb letter; I kept it back yesterday but maybe you ought to see it after all.
I hope that you will reach some definite POINT OF FACT with Friedländer; nothing much is ever to be got out of a German newspaper and it's beyond me how you could ask the enormous rate of £1 10/- for more than one article, especially since they have a correspondent[254] for their regular BUSINESS; they certainly can't want more than an enjolivement? The most that can be extracted from the Presse, as an AVERAGE MAXIMUM, will be £2 — don't delude yourself on that score. Engels is sure to say 'you'll be able to make at least £10 a week out of it'; though such delusions may be very agreeable at the time, they are often doomed to disappointment in the event.
The course of the revolution in Prussia[336] tickles me tremendously; particularly the 'ships, sails, masts and [waves]' speech made by liquor Prince Smith on his Baltic estate, and the rapturous applause it received. And on top of that the Kölnische Zeitung's transports over von der Heydt, and the admiration evinced even by the Presse for the energy and determination shown by the democratic press in Berlin??!!
The girls would have written to you long ago, but little Jenny declared that she detested the idea of what was simply a private letter being subjected to threefold censorship. Hence her silence.
9. Jenny Marx to Engels. After 13 August 1859
Karl dear, it's frightful that I should have to BOTHER you amidst all your other tribulations; but, with Easter upon us, the fellows are growing rabid. Can't you manage to raise something, if only for Withers? They are the worst....
The others are better — they can still be staved off for a while. I went to see Miss Morton yesterday and explained matters to her.
Your
Jenny
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JENNY MARX TO ENGELS[530]
IN MANCHESTER
[London, after 13 August 1859]
Dear Mr Engels,
Moor has just gone to the Museum(1) and has asked me to thank you for the £5 note you sent so promptly. And now, on top of all our other misfortunes, comes the COUNTY COURT. The affair's all the more vexing because I arrived just 5 minutes too late, otherwise the judge would certainly have granted me the right to make monthly payments as on the first occasion. You cannot conceive, dear Mr Engels, how painful it is for Karl and me to be such a constant burden on you and, with every letter, to despatch a fresh jeremiad appealing to your friendship and kindness.
Karl has had 6 copies of Po and Rhine for some time now. He forgot to tell you. Of those 6 copies he has given away 3 to acquaintances (Imandt, Juta and Cavanagh). I shall be sending you the rest next week.
The girls — just now they are practising a duet together and
11. Jenny Marx to Engels. 23 or 24 December 1859
singing very nicely indeed — send you their love, to which I too add my warm regards.
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Your
Jenny Marx
10. Jenny Marx to Engels. 4 November 1859[531]
Dear Mr Engels,
Szemere is constantly pestering Moor for the Tribune article(1) he promised him. Another dunning letter arrived this morning. Karl, who is struggling with Friday's article, begs you to send him the Kossuth article as soon as possible.
Warmest regards from the girls and myself.
Your
Jenny M.
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JENNY MARX TO ENGELS[532]
IN MANCHESTER
[London, 23 or 24 December 1859]
My dear Mr Engels,
My most heartfelt thanks for the Christmas HAMPER. The champagne will be a tremendous help in tiding us over the otherwise gloomy holiday, and will ensure a merry Christmas Eve. The sparkling bubbles of the champagne will make the dear children forget the lack of a little Christmas tree this year, and be happy and jolly for all that.
I have been terribly irritated by fleshy philistine Freiligrath and his Westphalian rectitude and respectability. On the other hand I was greatly amused today by your letter about the fat man and the lean woman,a and I cannot understand why I sometimes let the wretches' behaviour upset me so. Had we been 'BETTER OFF' this year, I'd have seen the funnier side of all this trouble, but humour goes by the board when one is constantly having to struggle against the pettiest misère; never have I found it so oppressive as now, when our dear little girls, who are blossoming so sweetly, have to endure it too. And then, on top of that, the secret hopes we had long nourished in regard to Karl's bookb were all set at naught by the Germans' conspiration de silence, only broken by a couple of wretched, belletristic feuilleton articles which confined themselves to the preface and ignored the contents of the book. The second instalment[473] may startle the slugabeds out of their lethargy and then they will attack its line of thought the more ferociously for having kept silent about the scientific nature of the work. Nous verrons!c I am, too, particularly curious to see what Ephraim Artfuld is going to hatch out. For his conduct in the matter is not altogether clear; Prussian Blue, like Ferdinand the Pure,e must be treated with great circumspection just now. and an official breach with the latter must still be postponed. He's only so thick with Blind because the latter was his MANSERVANT in the great Kinkel affair and stood up for his rights on the boozy Schiller committee. Because Blind helped by seeing to it that the bust of Schiller was unveiled (the green serge cover positively refused to come off until 4 men had tugged at and tussled with it) during his cantata' and not during the LOW COMEDIANS SEMAPHORING,f he now has to stand publicly side by side with the arrant liar and cover the latter's mendacity and cowardice with his own political loyalty and purity. Fazy's miserable lackey! But enough of these dratted people! I am also sending you my brother's bookh through Chaplin. It might interest you and provide you with matter for a review. Actually mon cher frère'' has virtually done us out of the legacy and it was a downright lie when he wrote and told me some years ago that these papers were nothing but useless disjointed notes with which absolutely nothing could be done, and which didn't even have any 'exchange value'.b I have ample cause to pick a quarrel with him, nor would anything be easier, in view of his present precarious political position, than to compromise him thoroughly. The Schleinitzes and Dunckers would be glad to take up the matter. Well, last week, without Karl's knowledge, I approached him about money. Since every attempt Karl had made to raise money had failed, I resolved in this extreme EMERGENCY to take the unpleasant step which I had hitherto avoided, even in the darkest days. Although Ferdinand refused to make me an 'advance', 'himself restricted to his pension', my letter has put me in a FALSE POSITION in regard to him, and my hands are completely tied. For the present I shall have to confine myself to reproaching him for the peculiar way he has treated my father0 in the preface. Even the crazy, egoistic brother,*1 who embittered my father's existence and, up to the last year of his life, extorted from my mother6 a yearly allowance paid out of her small widow's income, is dealt with better, more decently and in greater detail than our humane, truly noble and magnanimous father. The latter, it is true, 'knew his Shakespeare better than his Bible', a crime which is not forgiven him even in the grave by his pietistic[113] son. Moreover it was exceedingly strange that, touching as he did on our family circumstances, he should have omitted all mention of my father's second marriage and failed to name the second mother, who was the light of my father's life and who tended and nurtured her step-children with loyalty and love and devotion such as a woman's own children seldom meet with. This enabled him skilfully to cheat my brother Edgar and myself of her existence which he found intrusive. But this last is a matter of complete indifference and affects me very little; only father and mother should not have been treated and passed over in this way — and for that he must do penance. I am anxious to know what you will have to say about the military part of the book. Today little Jenny is copying the article[533] in my place. I believe my daughters will soon put me out of business, and I shall then come on the register of 'those entitled to assistance'. A pity that there's no prospect of getting a pension after my long years of secretarial duties. Goodbye for today. Warmest regards from all, including your
Jenny Marx
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Endnotes
[521] 490). His next article on the subject published in the New-York Daily
[38] another, in the second half of December 1853, when he also came with a
[522] Tribune—'The Moorish War'—was written in mid-January 1860 (see present
[3] 258, 296, 325, 343, 345, 374, 391, 393, 434 2 This refers to Robert Cobden's pamphlet What Next and Next? published in London in early 1856. It attacked Britain's foreign policy during the Crimean War waged by Britain, France, Turkey and Piedmont against Russia (1853-56). In particular, Cobden condemned die draft peace treaty with Russia as failing to guarantee stable peace.—3 3 This presumably refers to Marx's articles on the Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia written for the New-York Daily Tribune. As can be seen from Marx's letter to Engels of 22 September 1856 (this volume, p. 68), they were not published, and have never been found. The articles touched on Swedish history, probably in connection with the conclusion on 21 November 1855 of a defence treaty aimed at Russia between the Kingdom of Sweden and Norway on die one hand, and Britain and France on the other. Marx contributed to the New-York Daily Tribune from August 1851 to March 1862. At his request many of the articles for the Tribune were written by Engels. In fact it was not until August 1852 that Marx began sending his own articles. By agreement with the editors some of the articles dealing with individual European countries were datelined Paris, Berlin or Vienna (see this volume, pp. 352, 361, 368 and 410). Marx's and Engels' articles in the New-York Daily Tribune dealt with key issues of foreign and domestic policy, the working-class movement, the economic development of European countries, colonial expansion, and the national liberation movement in colonial and dependent countries. Many of them were reprinted in die Tribunes special editions — the New-York Weekly Tribune and the New-York Semi-Weekly Tribune—and were quoted by other American newspapers, in particular by The New-York Times. Some were reproduced in the Chartist Peoples Paper, London. The Tribune editors sometimes took liberties with the articles, printing them unsigned in the form of editorials, and making insertions, some of which were in direct contradiction to the content of the articles (see, e.g., this volume, pp. 81 and 100-01). A
[12] give material aid to the Marx family, and kept it until 1870. Engels' confidential
[300] their terroristic ideas.—278, 279 294 An allusion to Félix Pyat, who contributed to the French satirical journal Le
[2] and Notes, Martin Lawrence Ltd., London [1934].—3, 8, 19, 34, 37, 85, 208,
[524] Blind enjoyed the same prestige in Baden and Württemberg as Kinkel in
[525] Prussia.—555 521 The letter is not dated, but it has much in common in content with Marx's
[180] by Pizacono seized a ship bound for Tunis from Genoa and landed in the
[526] letter to Engels of 25 March 1856. Mrs Marx's mentioning of the report 'from
[250] conciliation with the radicals as a manifestation of his political vacillation and
[178] 'Army'—all ordered by Dana in his letter to Marx of 8 May 1857). Some
[246] for universal manhood suffrage. Jones' conciliatory policy caused discontent
[527] the Berlin correspondent in to-day's Times' is evidence that she wrote the
[528] letter on 28 March.—561 522 Probably one of Engels' articles on Pan-Slavism for the New-York Daily Tribune
[529] not published by the editors (see Note 11).—561 523 The letter is not dated. Jenny Marx's asking whether the eye lotion had helped Engels, and the fact that Marx had notified him of the despatch of the lotion in a letter of 9 April 1857 warrant the assumption that Jenny was writing a few days after 9 April. Engels answered her letter about 16 April 1857 (see this volume, p. 121).—563 524 The letter is not dated. Judging by its contents, it was in reply to Engels' letter to Marx of 29 July 1857 and the parcel he had sent die Marx family in London (see this volume, pp. 149-50). Of great help in dating the letter is Jenny's mentioning that Marx was busy 'shaping the Indian news into an article'. Judging by an entry in Marx's notebook, the article was despatched to the New-York Daily Tribune on 31 July 1857.—563 525 The letter is not dated. It is the reply to Engels' letter to Mrs Marx of about 11 August 1857, which has not been found. Marx mentions Engels' letter to Jenny in his letter to him of 15 August (see this volume, p. 151). Mrs Marx presumably answered Engels' letter shordy before that date.—565 526 Jenny Marx means Jones' statement in the press in support of the popular uprising in India (see Note 178).—565 527 The letter is not dated. But since Jenny Marx mentions her intention 'to write straight away' to Lassalle, and her letter to him is dated 9 April 1858, there is good reason to believe that her letter to Engels was written on die same day. This assumption is corroborated by Jenny's mentioning the arrival of the Manchester Guardians sent by Engels to London on 8 April, of which he informed Marx the next day (see this volume, pp. 304-05).— 569 528 This is the reply to Lassalle's letter to Marx of 26 March 1858, in which Lassalle wrote that he had come to terms with the Berlin publisher Duncker on the publication of Marx's A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.—570 529 The letter is not dated. As can be seen from its contents, it was written during Marx's stay with Engels in Manchester in May 1858 (see Note 318). Jenny probably wrote a few days after Marx's arrival there (6 May), since she mentions the enclosure of Cluss' letter to Marx which she had received after Cluss had visited her. On 11 May Engels communicated to Jenny a request by Marx concerning Cluss which probably had something to do with Cluss' letter which Jenny had forwarded to Marx (see this volume, p. 313).—571 530 The letter is not dated. It was obviously written after 13 August 1859 since
[254] as a passage from a private letter from Manchester (see present edition,
[336] country for commercial or other purposes; Britain and France received
[9] sway of people who advocated a compromise with the slave-owning states and
[530] Jenny mentions the receipt by Marx of six copies of Engels' pamphlet Po and
[531] Rhine and Marx's intention to send some of them to Manchester the following
[532] week. Marx had promised to send copies of the pamphlet in a letter to Engels
[473] Bonaparte's agents openly and was, as it were, aiding and abetting Vogt in his
[113] 1793-27 July 1794).—85 10 In September 1856 there was a royalist uprising in Neuchâtel. Many of the
[533] of 13 August 1859 (see this volume, p. 483).—572 531 The letter is not dated. It may be assumed that it was written on 4 November 1859, because Engels answered it on 5 November 1859 (see this volume, p. 518) and because Jenny writes about Marx's 'struggling with Friday's article'. 4 November was a Friday, one of the two days when Marx sent articles to the New-York Daily Tribune.—573 532 This letter, written in reply to Engels' letter of 22 December 1859, is not dated. As can be seen from its contents, Jenny wrote it a day or two before Christmas, i. e., on 23 or 24 December 1859.—573 533 xhis article of Marx's for the New-York Daily Tribune has not been found.—575
[11] assumed the post in the early 1850s, largely because he wanted to be able to