Karl Marx (51 page)

188.
‘
Marx lives a very retired life …
’ Letter from Wilhelm Pieper to FE, 27 January 1851.

188.
‘
The material I am working on is so damnably involved …
’ Letter from KM to Joseph Weydemeyer, 27 June 1851.

189.
‘
Well, our friend Dakyns is a sort of Felix Holt …
’ Letter from KM to Jenny Marx (daughter), 10 June 1869.

189.
‘
The process of curing these stockfish …
’ Letter from KM to Jenny Marx, 11 June 1852.

190.
‘
I await your answer by return of post …
’ Letter from KM to J. G. Kinkel, 22 July 1852.

190.
‘
If you believe that you can … provide proof …
’ Letter from J. G. Kinkel to KM, 24 July 1852.

191.
‘
Your letter – and this is precisely why it was
provoked
…
’ Letter from KM to J. G. Kinkel, 24 July 1852.

191.
‘
The cream of the jest …
’ Letter from KM to Adolf Cluss, 30 July 1852.

192.
‘
used to enjoy flirting with this old he-goat …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 22 May 1852.

192.
‘
and should my explanation not suffice …
’ Letter from KM to Baron A. von Brüningk, 18 October 1852.

192.
‘
Should this letter cause you offence …
’ Letter from KM to Karl Eduard Vehse, end of November 1852.

193.
‘
I am engaged in a fight to the death with the sham liberals.
’ Letter from KM to Karl Eduard Vehse, end of November 1852.

193.
‘
The democratic simpletons …
’ Letter from KM to Joseph Weydemeyer, 27 June 1851.

194.
‘
No running around, no advertisement …
’ From
The Great Men of the Exile
by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, in
The Cologne Communist Trial
(Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1971), p. 167.

196.
‘
Your prediction that we will get the Charter …
’ Letter from George Julian Harney to FE, 30 March 1846.

196.
‘
in for a surprise when once the Chartists make a start …
’ Letter from FE to Emil Blank, 15 April 1848.

198.
‘
impressionable, that is, to famous names …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 23 February 1851.

198.
‘
I am
fatigué
of this public incense …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 11 February 1851.

198.
‘
I find this inanity and want of tact …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 13 February 1851.

199.
‘
who should arrive but our Dear …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 24 February 1851.

200.
‘
more of a Frenchman than an Englishman …
’ See letter from George Julian Harney to FE, 30 March 1846.

200.
‘
After the experiments which undermined universal suffrage …
’ From
Neue Oder-Zeitung
, 8 June 1855.

201.
‘
There is one great fact …
’ Speech delivered by KM on 14 April 1856, published in the
People’s Paper
, 19 April 1856.

202.
‘
Provided nothing untoward happens …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 30 July 1851.

202.
‘
the very pleasing prospect of a trade crisis …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 31 July 1851.

202.
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In six months’ time the circumnavigation of the world …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 23 September 1851.

202.
‘
The iron trade is totally paralysed …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 15 October 1851.

203.
‘
From what Engels tells me …
’ Letter from KM to Ferdinand Freiligrath, 27 December 1851.

203.
‘
In England our movement can progress only under the Tories …
’ Letter from KM to Lassalle, 23 February 1852.

203.
‘
One is almost tempted to forecast …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 20 April 1852.

204.
‘
The state of the winter crops … [etc.]
’ See Letters from KM to FE, 29 January 1853, 10 March 1853, 28 September 1853.

204.
‘
We were spectators from beginning to end …
’
Neue Oder-Zeitung
, 28 June 1855.

204.
‘
At once the constabulary rushed from ambush …
’
Neue Oder-Zeitung
, 5 July 1855.

205.
‘
a new, splendid proof of the indestructible thoroughness …
’
Die Presse
(Vienna), 2 February 1862.

205.
‘
The Englishman first needs a revolutionary education …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 27 July 1866.

206.
‘
the preoccupation with gardening …
’ From
Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500–1800
by Keith Thomas (Allen Lane, London, 1983), p. 240.

206.
‘
the English proletariat is actually becoming more and more bourgeois …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 7 October 1858.

207.
‘
Drat the British!
’ Letter from KM to Eleanor Marx, 9 January 1883.

207.
‘
To most of his adherents …
’ From
David Urquhart: Some Chapters in the Life of a Victorian Knight Errant of Justice and Liberty
by Gertrude Robinson (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1920).

208.
‘
This chap went to Greece …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 10 March 1853.

209.
‘
In the
Advertiser
four letters by D. Urquhart …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 18 August 1853.

210.
‘
He is an utter maniac …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 9 February 1854.

211.
‘
I do not wish to be numbered …
’ Letter from KM to Ferdinand Lassalle.

211.
‘
The Urquhartites are being damned importunate …
’ Letter from KM to Jenny Marx, 8 August 1856.

212.
‘
The institute of Marxism – Leninism in Moscow omitted them …
’ The offending texts were left out of both the German and Russian collected works,
but did finally appear in and English edition – though only as recently as 1986, and after many years of tenacious argument between the British editors and the authorities in Moscow.

212.
‘
Did you overlook, in one of the
Guardians
you sent me …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 5 March 1858.

212.
‘
an Eastern palace, with a Turkish bath …
’
In the Days of the Dandies
, by Lord Lamington (London, 1890).

8 The Hero on Horseback

215.
‘
Unfortunately of the “sex”
par excellence
…
’ Letter from KM to FE, 17 January 1855.

216.
‘
a friend who was more dear to me …
’ Letter from KM to Amalie Daniels, 6 September 1855.

216.
‘
Though my heart is bleeding …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 30 March 1855.

217.
‘
I’ve already had my share of bad luck …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 12 April 1855.

217.
‘
the region round Soho Square …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 13 February 1863.

217.
‘
Bacon says that really important people …
’ Letter from KM to Ferdinand Lassalle, 28 July 1855.

218.
‘
I have been compelled by
force supérieure
to evacuate …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 11 September 1855.

220.
‘
It is indeed a princely dwelling …
’ Letter from Jenny Marx to Louise Weydemeyer, 11 March 1861.

220.
‘
Moor was admittedly a splendid horse …
’ From ‘Karl Marx: A Few Stray Notes’ by Eleanor Marx, in
RME
, pp. 250–1.

222.
‘
The clouds gathering over the money-market …
’ Letter from FE to KM, after 27 September 1856.

222.
‘
So here I am, without any prospects …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 20 January 1857.

222.
‘
I had believed that everything was going splendidly …
’ Letter from FE to KM,
c
. 22 January 1857.

223.
‘
Our attractive little house …
’ From ‘Short Sketch of an Eventful Life’ by Jenny Marx, translated in
RME
, pp. 229–30.

224.
‘
They are in effect cutting me down …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 24 March 1857.

224.
‘
What am I to tell him?
’ Letter from KM to FE, 29 June 1857.

224.
‘
As to the Delhi affair …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 15 August 1857.

225.
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The general appearance of the [Cotton] Exchange here was truly delightful …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 15 November 1857.

225.
‘
Another fortnight, and the dance will really be in full swing …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 7 December 1857.

225.
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It’s a case of do or die …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 15 November 1857.

226.
‘
After all, we want to show the Prussian cavalry a thing or two …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 11 February 1858.

226.
‘
I try to avoid mentioning the matter to you …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 5 January 1858.

227.
‘
mere lemonade on the one hand …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 8 December 1857.

227.
‘
for the benefit of the public it is absolutely essential …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 18 December 1857.

230.
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provided one has the time and money …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 1 February 1858.

231.
‘
He [Lassalle] seems to see himself quite differently …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 5 March 1856.

232.
‘
I carefully perused your Heraclitus …
’ Letter from KM to Lassalle, 31 May 1858.

232.
‘
The work I am presently concerned with …
’ Letter from KM to Lassalle, 22 February 1858.

232.
‘
Alas, we are so used to these excuses …
’ Letter from FE to Nikolai Danielson, 13 November 1885.

233.
‘
my sickness always originates in the mind …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 19 October 1867.

233.
‘
the worsening of his condition is largely attributable …
’ Letter from Jenny Marx to FE, 9 April 1858.

233.
‘
Moor has been out riding …
’ Letter from FE to Jenny Marx, 11 May 1858.

234.
‘
Since the all but completed manuscript of the first volume …
’ Letter from KM to Carl Friedrich Julius Leske, 1 August 1846.

234.
‘
Now let me tell you how my political economy is coming on …
’ Letter from KM to Lassalle, 22 February 1858.

234.
‘
I don’t suppose anyone has ever written about “money” when so short …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 21 January 1859.

235.
‘
it will be weeks before I am able to send it …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 22 October 1858.

235.
‘
the most appalling toothache …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 10 November 1858.

235.
‘
All that I was concerned with was the form …
’ Letter from KM to Lassalle, 12 November 1858.

236.
‘
My wife is quite right …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 11 December 1858.

236.
‘
The manuscript amounts to about twelve sheets …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 13–15 January 1859.

236.
‘
The general result at which I arrived …
’ From ‘Preface to
A Critique of Political Economy
’ by Karl Marx, translated in
MESW
, Vol. 1, pp. 361ff.

238.
‘
overcome by a kind of cholera …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 22 July 1859.

238.
‘
The secret hopes we had long nourished …
’ Letter from Jenny Marx to FE, 23 or 24 December 1859.

239.
‘
First we drank port, then claret …
’ From
Mein Prozess gegen die Allgemeine Zeitung
by Karl Vogt (Geneva, 1859), translated in
KMIR
, pp. 17–19.

242.
‘
By means of an ingenious system of concealed plumbing …
’ From
Herr Vogt
by Karl Marx, in
MECW
, Vol. 17, p. 243.

243.
‘
A circumstance that has been of great help to me …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 28 November 1860.

244.
‘
I became hourly more ill …
’ Letter from Jenny Marx to Louise Weydemeyer, 11 March 1861.

245.
‘
I am as tormented as Job …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 18 January 1861.

246.
‘
eternally smiling and grinning …
’ Letter from KM to Antoinette Philips, 24 March 1861.