Letter to Hermann Jung, August 14, 1871

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 14 August 1871


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVI, Moscow, 1935
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44


MARX TO HERMANN JUNG

IN LONDON

[London,] 14 August 1871

Dear Jung,

Would you tell Le Moussu (whose name must be Constant)) to go with the enclosed card to Mr Rosenthal, N. 2, Red Lion Square. He must say to be sent by Mr Eugène Oswald.

Rosenthal is a French Jew who perhaps will be able to employ Le Moussu as dessinateur[1] ! He does of course best not to say at all that he is a refugee.[2]

There are two Rosenthals, father and son. Le Moussu will do well to speak with both of them. He must go at once, because the places vacant must be filled this week.

Please send also to my house the Italian artist—I don't know his name, but remember to have seen him amongst our refugees. I can perhaps find him an occupation.

I enclose a few lines for Mdme Tomanowski.[3]

Mes civilités à Madame Jung?[4] Tout à vous,[5]

K. Marx

  1. ↑ designer
  2. ↑ Thus far Marx wrote in German. The rest of the letter is in English.
  3. ↑ The Russian revolutionary Yelizaveta Dmitrieva (Tomanovskaya) took an active part in the Paris Commune and helped Marx and the General Council in maintaining contacts with the French members of the International during the Commune and after its suppression. Marx's letter to Dmitrieva has not survived.
  4. ↑ With my best compliments to Mrs Jung.
  5. ↑ Yours truly