Letter to Pyotr Lavrov, March 23, 1877

Author(s)	Karl Marx
Written	23 March 1877

First published, in Russian, in Letopisi marksizma, Book V, Moscow-Leningrad, 1928
Printed according to the original
Translated from the French
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 45

MARX TO PYOTR LAVROV

IN LONDON

[London,] 23 March 1877

My dear Friend,

I have received the article and it is now in the hands of the member of the House of Commons, to whom, by the by, I shall send the rectification.^[1]

Beesly called on me yesterday; I spoke to him about an article by you^[2] for the Fortnightly. He told me he would recommend you to John Morley, the editor-in-chief, but—and this is most disagreeable—it would have to be written in, or translated into, English before being sent to the editor. As to the length of the article, 16 pages is the usual requirement.

Allsop did not give us his latest address; perhaps Le Blanc could get hold of it.

Yesterday I received a letter from St Petersburg with a note advising me that a parcel containing several books had been sent off to me.^[3] Unfortunately I have still to set eyes on it.

Yours ever,

Karl Marx

↑ At Marx's request, Pyotr Lavrov compiled a résumé of judicial and police persecution in Russia, which Marx passed on to the Irish M. P. Keyes O'Clery. The latter used the information in his speeches delivered in the House of Commons on 3 and 14 May 1877 (see MEGA, Erste Abteilung, Band 25, S. 462). Pyotr Lavrov also wrote an article in French entitled 'La justice en Russie', which Marx helped to get printed in the British weekly Vanity Fair on 14 April 1877.
↑ [P. L. Lavrov,] 'La justice en Russie', Vanity Fair, Vol. XVII, 14 April 1877.
↑ As is seen from Danielson's letter of 7(19) March 1877, he sent Marx the following books: A. Vasilchikov, Landownership and Agriculture in Russia and Other European States, vols I-II, St. Petersburg, 1876; P. A. Sokolovsky, Essays in the History of the Village Commune in the North of Russia, St Petersburg, 1877; V. Ya. Bunyakovsky, Anthropobiological Researches as They Apply to Russia's Male Population, St Petersburg, 1874; Statistical Chronicle of the Russian Empire and A Collection of Materials Concerning the Artels in Russia, issues I-III (all in Russian). See also Note 68.

[1] At Marx's request, Pyotr Lavrov compiled a résumé of judicial and police persecution in Russia, which Marx passed on to the Irish M. P. Keyes O'Clery. The latter used the information in his speeches delivered in the House of Commons on 3 and 14 May 1877 (see MEGA, Erste Abteilung, Band 25, S. 462). Pyotr Lavrov also wrote an article in French entitled 'La justice en Russie', which Marx helped to get printed in the British weekly Vanity Fair on 14 April 1877.

[2] [P. L. Lavrov,] 'La justice en Russie', Vanity Fair, Vol. XVII, 14 April 1877.

[3] As is seen from Danielson's letter of 7(19) March 1877, he sent Marx the following books: A. Vasilchikov, Landownership and Agriculture in Russia and Other European States, vols I-II, St. Petersburg, 1876; P. A. Sokolovsky, Essays in the History of the Village Commune in the North of Russia, St Petersburg, 1877; V. Ya. Bunyakovsky, Anthropobiological Researches as They Apply to Russia's Male Population, St Petersburg, 1874; Statistical Chronicle of the Russian Empire and A Collection of Materials Concerning the Artels in Russia, issues I-III (all in Russian). See also Note 68.

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