MARX TO ENGELS 

IN MANCHESTER 

[London,] 25 January 1860 

Dear Engels, 

Have you already heard about Vogt’s pamphlet,* in which there 
are the most horrible scurrilities concerning me? And, what is 
more, the thing is being jubilantly acclaimed by the Teutonic? 
bourgeoisie. The first edition has already been sold out. Yesterday, 
a ceaperR in the National-Zeitung contained a long defamatory 
passage from it.“ (Any chance of your laying hands on_ this 
particular number of the Nat.-Zeit.2 I haven’t been able to get hold 
of it here.) Now, what ought I to do? Mr Lassalle would seem to 
have taken such umbrage at my last letter that there hasn’t been a 
word from him since.’° 

I should be grateful if you could have an article reapy for Friday 
or Saturday* (there is a ship sailing via Cork). 

Salut. 
Your 
K. M. 
First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen Printed according to the original 
F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 2, Stuttgart, : . : ; 
1913 Published in English for the first 

time 

@ C. Vogt, Mein Prozess gegen die Allgemeine Zeitung, Geneva, 1859. - > Marx uses 
the archaic form ‘teutschen’ instead of the standard ‘deutschen’ (German, 
Germanic). - © ‘Karl Vogt und die Allgemeine Zeitung’, National-Zeitung, No. 37, 
22 January 1860. - ¢ 27 and 28 January 

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