Letter to Bertalan Szemere, January 12, 1860

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 12 January 1860


First published, in the language of the original (English), in Revue d'histoire comparée, t. IV, No. 1-2, Budapest, 1946
Published in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41

TO BERTALAN SZEMERE IN PARIS


London, 12 January 1860

My dear Sir,

Thanks for the point you have in my affair.1S This letter has been delayed, because I had entered into negotiations, on behalf of your publication, with a publisher who, having put me off from day to day, withdrew at last.[1]

Bentley is not your man. Try once with John Murray. In writing to those fellows, never forget to sign as ancient Minister. This is something with those flunkeys.

Yours truly

A. W.[2]


Would you be so kind to inform me, in your next letter, of the real state of things in Hungary?

  1. ↑ On 11 December 1859 Szemere wrote to tell Marx that he intended to publish a pamphlet on Hungary and asked Marx to help him in having it translated into English and published in Britain. Szemere's pamphlet appeared in Paris in 1860 under the title La Question hongroise (1848-1860) and in London, in Bentley's publishing house, the same year, under the title Hungary, from 1848 to 1860.
  2. ↑ A. Williams, an alias used by Marx in some of his letters.