Letter to Adolf Cluss, January 21, 1853

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 21 January 1853


First published in Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 28, Moscow, 1962
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 39


MARX TO ADOLF CLUSS[1]

IN WASHINGTON

[London,] 21 January 1853

... Yesterday I read a letter from Heinzen to Bamberger. He complains of money troubles and says he has been forced to resign from the Janus. As regards Dr Kellner, he was for a time correspondent of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. You should see if you can't make contact with him d'une manière ou d'une autre[2] Once Weydemeyer has put out feelers, your first step might be to send him a 'pithy' article... The wretched Willich, who is done for here, sailed for America last week as Kinkel's agent; so it is important that at least those parts of the pamphlet[3] which relate to him should appear in the press. It would be best if you could arrange for the pamphlet to be published in magazines; it has already come out in Switzerland, so it is no longer so important. Could not Börnstein, who wants to catch us with 'his bait', also be of some use in this matter? From what I know of him and his compagnon[4] Bernays, they will be much tickled by the account of the trickery of the police. I think it politic to establish contact with these people. I can assure you that if Bernays finds the means—and we must provide him with it—to re-establish contact with us, I could have these two chaps eating out of my hand. Have you heard nothing more from Schramm[5] or, on the other side, from Teilering?

  1. ↑ The original of Marx's letter has not been found. This fragment is reproduced as quoted in Cluss' letter to Weydemeyer of 17 February 1853
  2. ↑ in one way or another
  3. ↑ K. Marx, Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne.
  4. ↑ companion
  5. ↑ Conrad Schramm