Letter to Friedrich Engels, September 9, 1873

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 9 September 1873


First published in MEGA, Abt. III, Bd. 4, Berlin, 1931
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44


MARX TO ENGELS

IN RAMSGATE

[London,] 9 September 1873

DEAR FRED,

Letter from Hepner enclosed.780

The copies of the Alliance[1] which were meant to go to your house have not yet arrived, even though Darson had them as early as last Saturday[2] . Therefore, so far I have had nothing to send off but the 12 copies still at your home.

Salut

Your

K. M.

That sorry piece of work signed Perret, Duval, etc., was written—according to Trusov—by ClusereL[3] I said to you at the time that it could not have been written by those oafs because of t h e AFFECTATION OF A SMALL SORT OF LITERARY STYLE.

  1. ↑ K. Marx and F. Engels, The Alliance of Socialist Democracy and the International Working Men's Association.
  2. ↑ 6 September
  3. ↑ A reference to the Address 'Compagnons, notre Association traverse...' signed by Henri Perret, C. Bernard, Theodore Duval and others, which was issued in August 1873 in Geneva in connection with the forthcoming congress of the International (see Note 672). It was directed against some of the Hague Congress resolutions on organisational issues.