Letter to George Rivers, August 24, 1878

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 24 August 1878


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVII, Moscow, 1935
Published in English for the first time in: Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung, Berlin, 1959, No. 3
Reproduced in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 45


MARX TO GEORGE RIVERS

IN LONDON

[London,] 24 August 1878
41 Maitland Park Road, N. W.

Dear Sir,

The London Correspondent of the Berlin Vossische Zeitung[1] indulged in the bad joke that I had written a book Herr Bücher; thereupon the false rumour spread through Germany, and the Prussian Police did its utmost to confirm it by domiciliary visits at the shops of several booksellers intended to catch copies of Herr Bucher. Thus, you see, Herr Bucher is a hoax.

You will oblige me by sending me catalogues, if there be such, of your American and secondhand books.

Yours truly,

Karl Marx

  1. ↑ Elard Biscamp