Letter to Adolf Cluss, beginning of December, 1851

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written December 1851


The original of Marx's letter to Cluss is not extant. The excerpt published here is translated from Cluss' letter to Weydemeyer of 20 December 1851
First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXV, Moscow, 1934
Printed according to Adolf Cluss' letter to Joseph Weydemeyer of 20 December 1851
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 38

To Adolf Cluss in Washington

[London, beginning of December 1851]

... One of our best friends, Joseph Weydemeyer, has now arrived in New York. Make contact with him straight away; I do not yet know his address. But if you send a letter to the Staatszeitung or the Abendzeitung it will no doubt reach him. He can enlighten you on all matters relating to the party. He will be useful to you in the gathering in New York[1] and you can help him to arrange his living in America. Write and tell him that I asked you to write to him....

  1. ↑ In his letter to Weydemeyer of 20 December 1851 Cluss explains this passage as follows: 'Kinkel's loan, in which I let myself become involved through lack of knowledge of the state of affairs, and in which, in Marx's view, I should maintain my position for the present.'
    On the so-called German-American revolutionary loan see Note 497.