Letter to Hermann Jung, February 26, 1872

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 26 February 1872


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,] 26[1] February 1872

Dear Jung,

Could you come and visit me on Thursday[2] evening to help Engels and myself prepare a report for the press on the monies disbursed by the General Council for the refugees, etc.?

Bring all your account books with you, and also as many details as possible about the people we have placed.[3]

We and a mass of Frenchmen will not go to Holborn tomorrow evening, since, in view of the uproar in the streets, the meeting cannot be held after all.[4]

Harrison has another brazenly boastful article in The Times about the wonderful help he & Co. have given to the réfugiés, thus putting an end to all need AMONGST THE REALLY DESERVING.[5]

Enclosed are a little letter and POST-OFFICE ORDER from Jenny.[6]

Tout à vous,[7]

K. M.

  1. ↑ The original has '27', a slip of the pen.
  2. ↑ 29 February
  3. ↑ This refers to Jung's letter to the editor of the bourgeois-democratic newspaper L'Echo de Verviers, in reply to the libellous attacks made on the International's leaders by the petty-bourgeois journalist Pierre Vésinier in the paper. Jung's letter, dated 15 February 1866, had been edited by Marx (see present edition, Vol. 20, pp. 392-400).
  4. ↑ A reference to the regular meeting of the General Council due to be held on 27 February 1872; Council members were unable to get to the meeting because of a public procession on that day to celebrate the recovery of the Prince of Wales.
  5. ↑ F. Harrison, 'To the Editor of The Times', The Times, No. 27309, 26 February 1872.
  6. ↑ Marx's daughter
  7. ↑ Yours sincerely