Engels on Marx's Death

A collection of articles and statements by Frederick Engels regarding the death of Karl Marx.

Marx was was laid to rest in Highgate Cemetery on Saturday, March 17 1883, in the same grave as his wife, Jenny, buried 15 months earlier.

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