Letter to Juste Vernouillet, July 12, 1875

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 12 July 1875


First published (facsimile) in Renmin Ribao, Beijing, 9 March 1983 and in the language of the original (French) in Schriften aus dem Karl-Marx-Haus Arbeiter-bewegung und Geschichte, Nr. 29, Trier, 1983
Printed according to the facsimile
Translated from the French
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 45


MARX TO JUSTE VERNOUILLET[1]

IN PARIS

[London,] 12 July 1875

Dear Citizen,

You have done me a great service in telling me all about the affair. I shall at once write to M. Lahure, asking him to let me have an unequivocal reply.[2]

In the meantime, perhaps you would be so kind as to send me the name and address of that managerial Cerberus,[3] as also the address of a lawyer to whom I might have recourse should need arise.

If the French government wants a rumpus, I have sufficient contacts with the European press to do it signal service in that respect.

Yours very sincerely,

K. Marx[4]

  1. ↑ This is Marx's reply to Juste Vernouillet's letter of 11 July 1875.
  2. ↑ Marx is referring to the delay in the printing and distribution of the French edition of the first volume of Capital (see notes 17 and 38). The obstacles put up by the French government in the way of Capital are described in Marx's letter to Peter Imandt of 27 September 1875 (this volume, p. 92).
  3. ↑ Adolphe Quest
  4. ↑ There follows an undecipherable postscript.