Letter to Friedrich Adolph Sorge, November 14, 1879

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 14 November 1879


First published in Briefe und Auszüge aus Briefen von Joh. Phil. Becker, Jos. Dietzgen, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx u. A. an F. A. Sorge und Andere, Stuttgart, 1906
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 45


MARX TO FRIEDRICH ADOLPH SORGE

IN HOBOKEN

London, 14 November 1879
41 Maitland Park Road, N. W.

Dear Sorge,

I am at last able to send you all the powers of attorney.[1] I didn't get the others until the end of the week before last; they arrived when I was confined to the house by a most INFAMOUS cold and then, after that, my worthy SOLICITOR contrived to spin out the affair for another week, and only today did I finally receive my power of attorney. The account both for these and the first one will be sent to you later. The other 3 (or rather 4) powers of attorney will go off to you at the same time as this letter—but under separate cover.

You will doubtless have got my letter[2] in which I told you about the latest goings-on in the bosom of the party. Since then Höchberg and his associates[3] in Zurich have been removed, at least nominally, from the editorial committee which now sits in Leipzig, while Vollmar functions as editor in Zurich. His paper, Der Sozialdemokrat, isn't worth much. But at any rate all our associates worth mentioning, Liebknecht, Bebel, Bracke, etc., have disowned Dr Höchberg's, alias Richter's, Jahrbuch, though as yet only—in private.

You will have seen in the papers that the anti-communist gang, composed of very heterogeneous elements, was finally defeated at the Marseilles Congress.

My wife is still dangerously ill and I myself am not yet completely fit.

With kindest regards from my family.

Your

Karl Marx

  1. ↑ See this volume, pp. 392 93.
  2. ↑ Ibid., pp. 410 14.
  3. ↑ Eduard Bernstein and Carl August Schramm