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Title: Engels to George Julian Harney, Genoa, 5 October 1849
Description: Engels tells Harney, and through him Marx, that he has arrived in Genoa and is sailing for London on the schooner Cornish Diamond, glad to leave the police atmosphere of Piedmont.
Author: Friedrich Engels
Date: 1849-10-05
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/originales/1849-10-05%20Engels%20to%20George%20Julian%20Harney
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*Letter from Friedrich Engels to George Julian Harney in London, Genoa, 5 October 1849. Manuscript preserved at the IISG (Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels Papers, inv. K 566), transcribed from the digital facsimile by the Escuela de marxismo, 2026 (double reading and collation with the image). Written in English. Diplomatic transcription: spelling, capitals and punctuation as in the manuscript; underlining rendered as italics; deletions as ~~text~~. [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/1849-10-05%20Engels%20a%20George%20Julian%20Harney)*

My dear Harney

You will have got the few lines I sent you through Colonel Willich. This is to inform you, and by you Marx, that I am this morning arrived here in Genova, & that, wind and weather favourable, I am going ~~to~~ under sail for *London* to-morrow morning ~~by~~ on board the English Schooner *Cornish Diamond*, Captn *Stevens*. My journey will be of about 4 or 5 weeks. so that by the middle of November I shall be in London.

I am very happy to have found so soon an opportunity of leaving this damned police-atmosphere — indeed I never saw it so organized as here in Piedmont.

Ever truly thine  
F. Engels

Genova, Oct. 5th 1849

[Address:] George Julian Harney Esq / 9 Queen[?] street / Brompton / London