Letter to Ferdinand Lassalle, November 5, 1860

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 5 November 1860


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


MARX TO FERDINAND LASSALLE

IN BERLIN

London, 5 November 1860

Dear Lassalle,

I herewith acknowledge with many thanks the £12, which arrived on Saturday.[1] However, you should not approach the two people you name.[2]

Szemere's statement surprised me as much as anything emanating from the Hungarian emigration could surprise me.[3] In no circumstances can Szemere be said to be guided by personal motives, but he suffers from 'statesmanship'!

As soon as I've done with the BUSINESS of printingc and at last have my hands free, I shall write to you at length.

Your

K. M.

This time there seems good reason to hope that victory in the United States will go to the REPUBLICAN PARTY (whose organ is the Tribune).

I have today written to Weber, my lawyer, asking him to hand over the papers pertaining to the lawsuit to you,[4] and would be glad if you would temporarily house them for me.

  1. ↑ 3 November 1860
  2. ↑ Franz Duncker and Ludmilla Assing ' Herr Vogt
  3. ↑ This apparently refers to a statement by Szemere on Emperor Francis Joseph's diploma of 20 October 1860 granting a modicum of autonomy to the non-German parts of the Austrian Empire. Szemere's statement has not been found (see also Marx's Herr Vogt, present edition, Vol. 17, p. 225).
  4. ↑ This letter by Marx has not been found.