50 ENGELS T O MARX 186

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1 Engels to Mrx November ENGELS T O MARX 186 IN BRUSSELS [Pris, November 1847] Der Mrx, Not until this evening ws it decided tht I should be coming. Sturdy evening," then, in Ostend, Hôtel de l Couronne, just opposite the rilwy sttion beside the hrbour, AND SUNDAY MORNING ACROSS THE WATER. If you tke the trin tht leves between 4 nd 5, you'll rrive t bout the sme time s I do. If, contrry to expecttions, there is no pcket-bot to Dover on Sundys, write nd^ell me by return. I. e., since you will receive this letter on Thursdy morning, you must mke inquiries t once nd, should letter be necessry, it must be posted the sme evening before five o'clock, I think t the min post office. So if you wnt to mke ny chnges s regrds the meeting plce there is still time. If I hven't herd by Fridy morning I shll count on meeting you nd Tedesco on Sturdy evening t the Couronne. We shll then hve time enough to tlk things over; this congress must be decisive one, AS THIS TIME WE SHALL HAVE IT ALL OUR OWN WAY. For long time now I hve been completely t loss to understnd why you hve not put stop to Moses' gossip. b It's been giving rise to the most devilish confusion for me here nd the most tedious contrdictory speeches to the workers. Entire district sittings hve been wsted over it, nor is there ny possibility of effectively combting this 'vpid' nonsense in the communities; prticulrly before the elections there could be no question of it. I expect to see L. Blnc gin tomorrow. If not, I shll in ny cse see him the dy fter tomorrow. If I hve nothing to dd t the end of this letter, you will her the sequel on Sturdy. By die wy, Reinhrdt tlked nonsense to me bout the number of copies sold c not 37, but 96 hd been sold week go tody. Tht sme dy I myself took your book to L. Blnc. All the copies hd been desptched sve to Lmrtine (not here), L. Blnc nd 27 November b Probbly series of rticles by Moses Hess. - c K. Mrx, The Poverty of Philosophy.

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4 50. Engels to Mrx November Vidl, whose ddress cnnot be found. I hve hd it tken to the Presse. By the wy, Frnk's desptch rrngements hve been truly pplling. At lest see tht Moses doesn't get up to ny nonsense during our bsence! Au revoir, then! Verte Your E. Tuesdy evening Give little thought to the Confession of Fith. I think we would do best to bndon the ctcheticl form nd cll the thing Communist Mnifesto!' Since certin mount of history hs to be nrrted in it, the form hitherto dopted is quite unsuitble. I shll be bringing with me the one from here, which I did c ; it is in simple nrrtive form, but wretchedly worded, in tering hurry. I strt off by sking: Wht is communism? nd then stright on to the proletrit the history of its origins, how it differs from erlier workers, development of the ntithesis between the proletrit nd the bourgeoisie, crises, conclusions. In between, ll kinds of secondry mtter nd, finlly, the communists' prty policy, in so fr s it should be mde public. The one here hs not yet been submitted in its entirety for endorsement but, sve for few quite minor points, I think I cn get it through in such form tht t lest there is nothing in it which conflicts with our views. Wednesdy morning Hve just received your letter 187 to which the bove is n nswer. I went to see L. Blnc. I'm remrkbly unlucky with him il est en voyge, il reviendr peut-être ujourd'hui. 6 I shll go there gin tomorrow nd, if necessry, the dy fter. I cn't be in Ostend by Fridy everiing becuse the money won't hve been got together until Fridy. This morning your cousin Philips cme to see me. Born should mke quite good speech if you drum something into him. It's good tht the Germns re represented by working mn. 188 But Lupus must be purged of ll trce of his excessive PTO - b Cf. K. Mrx nd F. Engels, Mnifesto of the Communist Prty. - c F. Engels, 'Principles of Communism'. - d he's trvelling nd will perhps be bck tody.

5 Mrx to Annenkov. 9 December 1847 modesty. The good fellow is one of those rre people who hve to be thrust into the foreground. Not Weerth, for heven's ske, s representtive! A mn who ws lwys too lzy, until pitchforked by his succès d'un jour" t the Congress. 189 And who, to boot, wishes to be AN INDEPENDENT MEMBER. 77 fut le retenir dns s sphère. h First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen Printed ccording to the originl F. Engels und K. Mrx, Bd. 1, Stuttgrt,. iqi Published Published in English in lull tor the first time 51 MARX TO PAVEL VASILYEVICH ANNENKOV IN PARIS London, 9 December [1847] Der Annenkov, Prty considertions, into which I cnnot enter here, obliged me to py visit to London. 190 I took dvntge of this visit both to put the Brussels Democrtic Assocition in touch with the English Chrtists nd to hrngue the ltter t public meeting.' You perhps sw some reports bout it in the English nd French press. But when I set out on this trip nd I m compelled to sty here few dys longer I left my fmily behind in the most difficult nd direst of circumstnces. It is not simply tht my wife is ill nd the children d likewise. My economic sitution just now is so criticl tht my wife is being veritbly hrssed by creditors nd is in the most wretched finncil strits. How this crisis cme bout is esily explined. The Germn mnuscripts re not being published s whole. Those prts tht re being published' I m supplying grtis, simply in order to fleeting success - b He must be kept to his own sphere. - c K. Mrx nd F. Engels, 'On Polnd'. - d Jenny, Lur nd Edgr - e This seems to refer to Mrx's criticl rticle on Grün's Die socile Bewegung in Frnkreich und Belgien published in Ds Westphälische Dmpßoot, August-September It is one of the mnuscripts of Volume II of Mrx nd Engels' The Germn Ideology.