From a Newspaper Item Listing the Names of Visitors Who Had Just Arrived in Vienna

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 30 August 1848


First published in the Wiener Zeitung No. 236, August 30, 1848
Printed according to the newspaper
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 7
Collection(s): Wiener Zeitung

New Arrivals

August 27

Herr Steriol Damesa, merchant, from Semlin.— Baroness Beust, wife of the royal and imperial cavalry captain from Tarnow.— Herr Anton Feuerstein, merchant, from Schwarzenberg.— Herr Carl Marx, Ph. D., from Paris.[1] —Messrs. Alex. Kusa and Basil. Ghika, men of private means, from England.[2]

  1. Reference to Paris is apparently made because of the passport Marx had on him, issued by the Paris police office on March 30, 1848 (see illustrations between pages 408 and 409 of this volume).
  2. There follows a list of other persons who had arrived in Vienna that day.— Ed.