Letter to Moritz Kaufmann, October 3, 1878

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 3 October 1878


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 34, Moscow, 1964
Reproduced from the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 45


MARX TO MORITZ KAUFMANN[1]

IN BIRKENHEAD

[Draft]

[London, 3 October 1878
41 Maitland Park Road, N. W.]

Dear Sir,

Mr Petzler told me you had written an article on my book The Capital and my life, to be reprinted together with other articles of yours, and that you desired me or Engels to correct any errors on your part.[2] I can of course not decide how far this is feasible before having got a copy of [the] said article.

The best history of the Commune is Lissagaray's: Histoire de la Commune. Its first edition, however, is exhausted and no second one yet published. The address of Lissagaray is: 35 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square, London, W.; he may perhaps be able to procure you a copy of his work.

En attendant[3] I forward you the 'Address' on the Commune written by me immediately after its downfall on behalf of the General Council of the International.[4]

I shall also send you—if you do not yet possess it—by post a recent publication of my friend Engels: Herrn Eugen Dühring's Umwälzung der Wissenschaft, which is very important for a true appreciation of German Socialism.

Yours truly,

Karl Marx

M. Kaufmann, ESQ.

  1. ↑ Marx's letters to the British clergyman Moritz Kaufmann of 3 and 10 October 1878 are replies to the latter's request that he look through Kaufmann's article about himself, which was to appear in the Leisure Hour magazine in December 1878 and to be included in a book on the history of socialism he was preparing for publication. Kaufmann's book Utopias; or, Schemes of Social Improvement. From Sir Thomas More to Karl Marx came out in London in 1879. Marx read through the last two chapters.
  2. ↑ See this volume, p. 332.
  3. ↑ In the meantime
  4. ↑ K. Marx, The Civil War in France.