Letter to Johann Jacoby, February 4, 1871

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 4 February 1871


First published in Archiv für die Geschichte des Sozialismus und der Arbeiterbewegung, Achter Jahrgang, Leipzig, 1919
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44


MARX TO JOHANN JACOBY

IN KÖNIGSBERG[1]

London, 4 February 1871
1 Maitland Park Road, Haverstock Hill, N.W.

Dear Friend,

Professor John Morley, the editor of The Fortnightly Review, wrote to me yesterday requesting me to ask you if you would like to write a short essay on conditions in Germany for the Review (it would be translated into English here). At Mr Morley's request I shall also probably submit something for the April issue (contributions for that issue have to be ready by 10 March).[2] In the February number, the Fortnightly had essays in the Bismarckian spirit by the suspended republican Blind[3] and by Professor Kinkel, for the same purpose as the one for which the Spartans demonstrated off to their young men the slaves they had first made drunk.

Hoping for an early reply from you,

With sincere good wishes,

Karl Marx

  1. ↑ Modern name: Kaliningrad.
  2. ↑ See this volume, p. 116.
  3. ↑ K. Blind, 'The Result of French Designs upon Germany', The Fortnightly Review, No. XLIX, 1 January 1871.