Letter to an Unknown Correspondent, November 4, 1878

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 4 November 1878


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


MARX TO AN UNKNOWN CORRESPONDENT

London, 4 November 1878

Dear Friend,

You would greatly oblige me by seeing if you could safely convey the enclosed letter to Mrs Liebknecht's address, 11 Braustrasse, Leipzig. It concerns the 'stomach problem' for Liebknecht's family, but I don't trust the German post.[1]

Yours very sincerely,

Karl Marx

  1. ↑ This letter was occasioned by Marx's and Engels' attempts to get Liebknecht a job on the London Whitehall Review, since the Vorwärts, where he had been a member of staff, had been banned with the introduction of the Anti-Socialist Law in Germany on 21 October 1878. On 4 November, Marx sent a letter through a third party to Natalie Liebknecht, which she received on 14 November. Its contents are not known, but Liebknecht must have read it, since on 18 November he thanked Engels and Marx for their efforts to find him a job (see also this volume, p. 352).