Letter to the Editor of Public Opinion, August 17, 1871

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 19 August 1871


Source : Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 22
First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXIV, 1931
Reproduced from the rough manuscript

This private letter and an open letter to the editor of Public Opinion (this volume, pp. 393-94) were dispatched by Marx to Engels with his letter of August 19, 1871 (see present edition, Vol. 44), in which he asked Engels to make copies of the letters and send them to the newspaper, because his own handwriting might cause misprints.

This letter was first published in English in Marx/Engels, Gesamtausgabe

( MEGA). Erste Abteilung, Bd. 22, Berlin, 1978, S. 1090.

PRIVATE LETTER

Sir,

I not only request you to insert the enclosed reply in your next number,[1] but I demand an ample and complete apology in the same place of your paper where you have inserted the libel.[2] I should regret being forced to take legal proceedings against your paper.

Yours obediently,

K. M.

  1. ↑ See this volume, p. 393.— Ed
  2. ↑ "A German View of the Internationale", Public Opinion, No. 517, August 19, 1871.— Ed.