Marx-Engels Correspondence 1856
Source: MECW Volume 40, p. 58;
First Published: First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 2, Stuttgart, 1913
Translated By: Peter and Betty Ross
[Draft]
Dear Sir,
I write again myself to show that I bear not the least ill will against you for which, indeed, there would be no cause. In your letter d.d. July 19, [See this volume, p. 60.] you say: ‘It could not be satisfactory etc,’ Now as to my own satisfaction please to leave it altogether out of the question. As to Mr Ironside’s ‘satisfaction’ I’ll quote you the exact words of his ‘note’. [Below Marx quotes from a non-extant letter by Ironside to Cyples.] Having told you, that already the first article had ‘overdosed’ him, he continues as follows:
‘They’ (Dr Marx’s articles) ‘are entombing the paper. This must not be. They must be brought to a close forthwith. You must not have more than two more doses — this week and the next. You had better write him at once to that effect.’
I positively decline making myself guilty of manslaughter by administering another ‘dose’ to Mr Isaac Ironside and ‘entombing’ him in the sheets of his own paper.
Yours etc.
Dr K. M.