Letter to Joseph Weydemeyer, June 2, 1853

Author(s) Adolf Cluss
Written 2 June 1853


First published in Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 28, Moscow, 1962
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 39


ADOLF CLUSS TO JOSEPH WEYDEMEYER[1]

IN NEW YORK

Washington, June 2nd 1853

... Today received a letter from Marx's wife which unfortunately I would seem to have placed outside my pocket when on the omnibus. Marx had just returned from Manchester (20th May).[2]

He is delighted with your Reform article[3] ; likewise your introduction[4] to Hirsch's statement.[5] Marx's only regret is that not all our things are able to appear under your auspices, but that the names of the two ciphers from the Hornisse must be given precedence.[6] Otherwise he is satisfied with the Reform. Dronke has at last obtained a post as clerk in Bradford at £10 a month.

Pieper would appear to have been shown the door by Rothschild[7] some time ago; the part he played in the communist trial makes it difficult for him to find a berth elsewhere.

Rothschild, was at university with him, has paid him nothing to date, but would do so if he possibly could; Pieper must see to this au moment having no other recourse.

Eccarius is still not restored. Lupus, due to PRESSURE FROM WITHOUT, is very ill disposed... The Tribune leaders on the EASTERN QUESTION are all by Marx; he wrote them without adding any of the usual NEWS trivialities so that Dana went and changed some of the longer historical expositions, etc., into Tribunese and published them as LEADERS.[8] The Tribune is a well-spring from which Marx cannot afford to cut himself off, hence he intends to turn a blind eye and would rather we didn't make any direct reference to the fact, even though he resents it—, that his more objective LOOKING pieces appear without his name, while the articles that do appear under his own name are no more than dregs...[9]

  1. ↑ The excerpt from Cluss' letter to Weydemeyer given here contains an account of Jenny Marx's letter to Cluss of 20 May 1853 which has not survived
  2. ↑ Marx visited Engels in Manchester from 30 April to 19 May 1853
  3. ↑ J. Weydemeyer, 'Nationalökonomische Skizzen'.
  4. ↑ J. Weydemeyer, 'Der "demokratische" Mouchard".
  5. ↑ W. Hirsch, 'Erklärung' [of 12 January 1852], Belletristisches Journal und New-Yorker Criminal-Zeitung, No. 7, 29 April 1853.
  6. ↑ Gottlieb Kellner and Heinrich Heise
  7. ↑ probably Wilhelm Karl Rothschild
  8. ↑ presently
  9. ↑ On the Tribune editors' tampering with Marx's and Engels' articles see also this volume, pp. 331-32.