Letter to Joseph Weydemeyer, June 14, 1853

Author(s) Adolf Cluss
Written 14 June 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


ADOLF CLUSS TO JOSEPH WEYDEMEYER[1]

IN NEW YORK

Washington, June 14th 1853

Dear Weyd.,

Just received your letter. As regards Pieper's article, Marx wrote some time ago—4 months, perhaps—in reply to my apology for making use of one of his letters, saying that I shouldn't get such silly ideas into my head.[2] Though in no way given to flattery he had found that I only made use of his letters on rare occasions and certainly never for my own personal ends; in any case, they were deliberately written for me to make use of. I shouldn't think him so niggardly of his ideas; Pieper and red Wolff[3] are there, writing down everything he says...

  1. ↑ This excerpt from Cluss' letter to Weydemeyer gives the contents of part of Marx's letter to Cluss which has not survived. The letter may have been written in February 1853
  2. ↑ Marx's letter to Cluss has not survived
  3. ↑ Ferdinand Wolff