Letter to Eduard von Müller-Tellering, January 1, 1850

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 1 January 1850


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXV, Moscow, 1934
Printed according to a copy by Engels
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 38, p. 223

[Copy]

[London,] 1 January 1850

Dear Tellering, Engels, Seiler, Weerth, Willich and I shall not be appearing at the meeting arranged for 3 January[1] , for the following reasons amongst others:

  1. The list of political refugees invited has been arbitrarily compiled. Thus, for example, C. Schramm and F. Wolff are not included.
  2. Not one of the workers, who for years have been in the vanguard of German democracy in London, has been invited.

Your

K. Marx

  1. ↑ In a letter of 30 December 1849 addressed to Marx and Engels and other refugees, Louis Bamberger (editor of the Deutsche Londoner Zeitung), Eduard von Müller-Tellering and Rudolf Schramm invited them to attend a German refugees' meeting which was to be held on 3 January 1850 with the alleged aim of uniting the German refugees. Actually the organisers wanted to bring the proletarian elements under petty-bourgeois influence.