Letter to Bertalan Szemere, March 13, 1860

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 13 March 1860


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXV, Moscow, 1934. First published in the language of the original (English) in Szâzadok, Nos. 4-6, Budapest, 1959
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41


MARX TO BERTALAN SZEMERE[1]

IN PARIS

Manchester, 13 March 1860
6 Thorncliffe Grove, Oxford Road

My dear Sir,

I have not yet received your book[2] Otherwise I should have given a compte rendu[3] of it in the New-York Tribune.

I sent you the article against Kossuth[4] on the express condition of its being returned to me. I attach not the least importance to that article, but I want it for specific purpose.

I have instituted two actions for libel at Berlin and London against newspapers[5] which had the impudence of reprinting extracts from Vogt's libel.[6] I observed, for 10 years, a strict silence in the face of the most reckless calumnies, but I know that now the moment has arrived of publicly exposing them.

My friend from whose house I am addressing these lines to you may perhaps (he is a merchant) become useful to you. Send him a catalogue (Mr Frederick Engels, care of Messrs Ermen and Engels, Manchester) of your wines. But do not use such fellows as Stoffregen for your agents.

Yours truly

Williams[7]

In a few days I shall return to London.

  1. ↑ This letter is reproduced from the copy Marx made in his notebook.
  2. ↑ B. Szemere, La Question hongroise (1848-1860), Paris, 1860. See also this volume, p. 6.
  3. ↑ review
  4. ↑ K. Marx, 'Kossuth and Louis Napoleon'. See also this volume, p. 12.
  5. ↑ National Zeitung and The Daily Telegraph
  6. ↑ C. Vogt, Mein Prozess gegen die Allgemeine Zeitung, Geneva, 1859.
  7. ↑ A. Williams, an alias used by Marx in some of his letters.