Letter to Adolphe Hubert, not before August 14, 1871

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 14 August 1871


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVI, Moscow 1935. Translated from the French
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44


MARX TO ADOLPHE HUBERT

IN LONDON

[Draft] [London, not before 14 August 1871]

Dear Citizen,

First of all I haven't got Mr Bigot's address, so cannot write to him direct. Moreover, I believe it would be safer to send any mail through you.

I cannot immediately lay my hands on the German journals relating to the Lefaivre incident,[1] but in the issue of the Volksstaat (published in Leipzig and edited by Liebknecht), Mr Bigot will find the letter from Lefaivre as well as editorial comments on that letter. The trial of Liebknecht and Bebel has, by the bye, gained widespread notoriety.

In No. 63 of the Volksstaat (5 August 1871) (see marked passage) Mr Bigot will observe that the proceedings against Liebknecht, Bebel, etc., for planning high treason axe going ahead and that Lefaivre's letter figures amongst the documents used in the indictment.

For Jourde's defence I enclose a declaration by an Englishman, Mr Wm. Träte, in regard to the fire at the Ministry of Finance.[2]

I shall write to Willebrord[3] asking him to keep the things which he has received from Mr Bigot.

Fraternal greetings,

K. M.

  1. ↑ See this volume, p. 196.
  2. ↑ In August 1871, at the trial of a group of Communards, François Jourde, delegate of the Finance Commission of the Commune, was accused, among other things, of having set fire to the Ministry of Finance building. This charge was based on evidence fabricated by the police.
  3. ↑ E. Glaser de Willebrord