Letter to Hermann Jung, January 8, 1870

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 8 January 1870


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVI, Moscow, 1935
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,] 8 January 1870

My dear Jung,

First Shaw's[1] funérailles, afterwards other incidents have prevented me from sending you earlier the 'missive' to Geneva.[2]

There are des changements[3] in the text—I have struck away, I have added some sentences, and very often corrected the phraseology.

Hence you must copy the thing anew (as quickly as possible) so that the text I send to day to Bruxelles be conform with that sent to Geneva. As soon as you have done, put the thing into the hands of Dupont.

With compliments to your family

Yours truly

Karl Marx

I have, besides the copy of the Geneva 'missive', made a full report to the Bruxelles Comité[4] pour les encourager et aussi un peu[5] to show them the theoretical nonsense preached at Geneva.

  1. ↑ On 5 January 1870, Marx was a member of the General Council delegation to the funeral of Robert Shaw, a house-painter and member of the General Council. The obituary Marx had written on the instruction of the Council was published in the Belgian newspaper L'Internationale, No. 53, 16 January 1870 (see present edition, Vol. 21, p. 92).
  2. ↑ K. Marx, The General Council to the Federal Council of Romance Switzerland
  3. ↑ changes
  4. ↑ The report to the Belgian Federal Council written by Marx as a temporary Corresponding Secretary for Belgium is not extant. It had been forwarded to De Paepe through Hins alongside a copy of the circular letter 'The General Council to the Federal Council of Romance Switzerland' (see present edition, Vol. 21, p. 84) and Robert Shaw's obituary (see Note 511).
  5. ↑ 'to encourage them' and also partly