Letter to Juliusz Bałaszewicz-Potocki, November 25, 1871

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 25 November 1871


First published, in the language of the original (English), in Krasny Arkhiv, No. 6, Moscow, 1924
Reproduced in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44


MARX TO JULIUSZ BALASZEWICZ-POTOCKI[1]

IN LONDON

London, 25 November 1871
1 Maitland Park Road,
Haverstock Hill, N.W.

Dear Sir,

I send you together with these lines 4 copies of the Statutes and Regulations[2] and some copies of the Resolutions of the London Conference[3]

As to the Statutes etc. the French edition will be published in a few days. Please write me how many copies of that edition you want?

For all other communications relative to the International, please address them to General W. Wroblewski (22 Vincent Terrace, Islington), who is the Secretary for Poland of the General Council.

Yours faithfully,

Karl Marx

  1. ↑ Marx's letters to Balaszewicz-Potocki of 25 and 29 November 1871 were found in the archives of the Third Department (political police in Tsarist Russia). Juliusz Balaszewicz was an agent of the Russian secret police in London, where he posed as Count A. Potocki, a Polish emigre.
    These letters were written in reply to Balaszewicz's letters offering his assistance in distributing the documents of the International among Poles and Russians.
    Marx's letters were written on letterheads of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association.
  2. ↑ K. Marx, General Rules and Administrative Regulations of the International Working Men's Association.
  3. ↑ K. Marx and F. Engels, 'Resolutions of the Conference of Delegates of the International Working Men's Association Assembled at London from 17th to 23rd September 1871'.