Letter to Adolf Cluss, beginning of August, 1852

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written August 1852


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 28, Moscow, 1962. Printed according to a letter from Cluss to Weydemeyer of 15 October 1852. Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 39


MARX TO ADOLF CLUSS[1]

IN WASHINGTON

[London, beginning of August 1852]

... Now the secret is out, namely the reason why the Cologne people have yet again failed to appear. The principal witness, Haupt, the traitor from Hamburg, has taken himself off to Brazil. The 2nd most important witness, a journeyman tailor, has likewise shown a clean pair of heels. This leaves the government without even the semblance of a proof. The scoundrels are taking their revenge by prolonging the period of preventive detention....

  1. ↑ Only a short extract of this letter has survived as quoted by Cluss in his letter to Weydemeyer of 15 October 1852