Letter to Friedrich Adolph Sorge, June 14, 1876

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 14 June 1876


First published in Briefe und Auszüge aus Briefen von Joh. Phil. Becker, Jos. Dietzgen, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx U.A. an F. A. Sorge und Andere, Stuttgart, 1906
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 45


MARX TO FRIEDRICH ADOLPH SORGE[1]

IN HOBOKEN

[London, 14 June 1876]

Dear Friend,

I am today sending you for the third time livraisons[2] Nos. 31-44 of Capital"; should you once more fail to receive them, let me know immediately, then I shall pick a SERIOUS QUARREL with the GENERAL POST OFFICE here. As for meddling by Dr Kugelmann (resp. Meissner, which I cannot credit, though I shall inquire further from the man himself), I was greatly surprised to hear of it since I am not yet a 'goner' and hence no one apart from myself has any say in the disposal of my writings.[3]

By 'scandalous goings-on' I meant what you suppose, but shan't be needing it until towards the end of September.[4]

Shall send you a copy of the Most, corrected by me, forthwith; didn't put my name to it because I should then have had to make even more alterations (I had to delete the bits about value, money, wages and much else, and substitute things of my own).

More anon. Warm regards from the whole FAMILY.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ Marx wrote on the envelope of this letter: 'Mr. F. A. Sorge, Bez. 101, Hoboken, N. J., via New York (U. States), per next steamer.' The date has been established by the postmark.
  2. ↑ instalments (the French edition of the first volume of Capital)
  3. ↑ In a letter of 4 April 1876 (see this volume, p. 115), Marx requested Sorge to send him the articles published by the New-York Tribune of which he was the author. In his reply of 2 June 1876, Sorge wrote that Kugelmann had asked several months earlier for these articles to be included in Marx's complete works planned by the Hamburg publisher Otto Meissner. Sorge had received this information from Livingstone, who kept the articles from the Tribune after Hermann Meyer's death. Livingstone refused to send them to Kugelmann without Marx's knowledge.
  4. ↑ See this volume, p. 121.