Letter to Edouard Vaillant, May 24, 1872

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 24 May 1872


First published, in the language of the original (French), in International Review of Social History, Vol. XVII, Parts I-II, Assen, 1972
Printed according to the original
Translated from the French
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44


MARX TO EDOUARD VAILLANT

IN LONDON

[London,] 24 May 1872

My dear Vaillant,

Serraillier has received a letter from Brussels from some of the proscribed persons over there—which in my view makes it necessary that something be done here to avert if at all possible any further rumpus amongst the Communards. It is for this reason that I have agreed with Serraillier to ask you (and via you Arnaud), Cournet and Ranvier to come to my house tomorrow evening (Saturday at 8 or 9 o'clock, whichever is more convenient) to discuss what should be done (needless to say the General Council has nothing to do with the affair).

Yours ever,

Karl Marx

I have had a letter from Rochat,[1] who is presently working in a coal-mine in the Borinage.

  1. ↑ Presumably Rochat's letter to Marx of 23 May 1872.