Marx-Engels Correspondence 1856
Source: MECW Volume 40, p. 53;
First Published: First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 2, Stuttgart, 1913
Translated By: Peter and Betty Ross
Dear Frederic,
I leave for Scotland at the end of this week, and shall come on to you from there after an interval of 6 days, but will of course give you prior notice. Should you write to me during this week, address the letters ‘C. Marx, care of P. Imandt, 29 Cowgate, Dundee’. There was a twofold reason for my decision to come to you via Scotland:
1. Medical, because I know that the sea-voyage will put me to rights and it was only the day before yesterday that I got rid of my rheumatism. Moreover, there have been other unpleasantnesses, including excessive bleeding at stool. I have, of course, also consulted my surgeon.
2. Pieper. He will accompany me to Scotland and then return to London. Had I not agreed to this arrangement, the lad — he obtained the money for the trip from his former pupil, A. Rothschild — was fully determined to make his way to Paris on a false passport, allegedly with the intention of proceeding from there to Geneva on foot. You will realise what a strange and compromising end such an expedition likely was to arrive at.
Salut.
Your
K. M