Letter to Hermann Becker, April 9, 1851

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 9 April 1851


First published in Anklageschrift gegen P. G. Roeser, J. H. G. Bürgers, P. Nothjung, W. J. Reiff, H. H. Becker, R. Daniels, C. W. Otto, A. Jacobi, J. J. Klein, F. Freiligrath, Cologne, 1852
Printed according to Anklageschrift
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 38


TO HERMANN BECKER[1]

IN COLOGNE

[London,] 9 April 1851

Dear Becker,

Herewith the jolly scribble from the School of Kinkel. 15 shillings have accumulated here for the League.[2] 10 shillings are still outstanding, having been promised but not yet collected. I shall proceed in the manner you indicate. So debit me with £1. For, owing to the reduced circumstances of the member who should pay it, five shillings cannot be collected....

  1. ↑ The original of the letter is not extant. The excerpt published here was quoted in the indictment of Hermann Becker and others at the Cologne communist trial (1852).
  2. ↑ Communist League