Letter to Hermann Jung, August 1, 1869

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 13 August 1869


First published in Russian in Bazelsky kongress I Internatsionala 6-11 sentyabrya 1869, Moscow-Leningrad, 1934
Reproduced from the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 43


MARX TO HERMANN JUNG

IN LONDON

[London,] 13 August [1869]

Dear Jung,

Your letter just received (2 o'clock). Go at all events.[1] The sending of Applegarth by his own Union will show to the continentals that the English workmen are not so indifferent in regard to the International as their ill-wishers say. It is only a pity that Applegarth does not even take part at our present discussions, so as to be able to represent our views.

If care be not taken, the asses of Denmark street may work mischief. A letter ought also to be written to our Pole[2] —I have not his address.

Yours truly

K. M.

  1. ↑ On Marx's recommendation, Hermann Jung, member of the General Council, evidently attended the meeting of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners which discussed a nominee to the Basle Congress. On 17 August, Jung informed the General Council that the Society would probably send a representative to the Congress. This was the Society's General Secretary Robert Applegarth, who, however, carried only a General Council member's mandate.
  2. ↑ Anton Zabicki