Letter to Wilhelm Liebknecht, May 5, 1871

Author(s)	Karl Marx
Written	5 May 1871

First published, in Russian, in Marx-Engels Archives, Vol. I (VI), Moscow, 1932
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44

MARX TO WILHELM LIEBKNECHT

IN LEIPZIG

[London,] 5 May 1871

Dear Liebknecht,

Yesterday evening when your letter arrived, I wrote at once and made A MISTAKE. The date of the Petit Journal with the reference to Vogt is 25 March 1871? This date is important. The Journal, like other Paris papers, had begun to publish the list of those subsidised long before the revolution of 18 March, and continued to do so after it. It finished doing so on 25 March with the list of people whose names began with 'V.

Your

K. M.