Letter to Franz Duncker, February 6, 1860

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 6 February 1860


First published in: F. Lassalle. Nachgelassene Briefe und Schriften, Bd. III, Stuttgart-Berlin, 1922
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41


MARX TO FRANZ DUNCKER

IN BERLIN

London, 6 February 1860

Dear Sir,

Would you very kindly arrange to print the enclosed written statement,[1] which I am sending simultaneously to the National-Zeitung and the Publicist (what its politics are I do not know, but it would appear to be widely read over here) in Berlin; likewise, to the Kölnische Zeitung, the Frankfurter Journal, the Hamburg 'Reform' and the Augsburg 'Allgemeine Zeitung'.

I should be much obliged if you would pass the following on to Lassalle:

Time does not permit my replying to him today. The article on Kossuth,[2] which I sent Szemere in Paris ON THE EXPRESS CONDITION that it be returned immediately, has been in his hands for months now. I shall now hold a pistol to his head — allegorically speaking, OF COURSE.

I should be most grateful if Lassalle would send Vogt's book[3] by post direct to Engels at his private address, 6 Thorncliffe Grove, Oxford Road, Manchester, where I am going to stay.[4] Finally, I should be glad if he would send to the same address copies of such Berlin papers as accept the statement.

I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,

K. Marx

  1. ↑ K. Marx, 'To the Editors of the Volks-Zeitung. Declaration'.
  2. ↑ K. Marx, 'Kossuth and Louis Napoleon'.
  3. ↑ C. Vogt, Mein Prozess gegen die Allgemeine Zeitung, Geneva, 1859.
  4. ↑ Marx visited Engels in Manchester on 16 February and stayed until 25 March 1860.