Letter to Johann Philipp Becker, June 23, 1860

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Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 23 June 1860


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXV, Moscow 1934
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41
Keywords : Letter, Johann Philipp Becker


MARX TO JOHANN PHILIPP BECKER

IN PARIS

[London,] 23 June[1] 1860

Dear Becker,

Would you be so kind as to forward the enclosed letter to Lommel? I am sending it through you because I only have an address for Lommel in Geneva which no longer appears to be certain. At any rate, in his last few letters L. has neither mentioned the letters I sent him, nor answered my inquiry regarding the failure to arrive (should have come weeks ago) of a parcel he had advised me of.

Give Schily my kindest regards. I would ask you to arrange the letter Ranickel wrote him to be sent me as soon as possible.[2]

It was not until a day or two ago that I became capable of work again and I am still to a certain extent convalescent.

The publishers of the Deutsche Zeitung, which is to come out in Berlin at the beginning of July, have approached me through a third person[3] about contributions. I have not yet given them a definite answer. I am first asking for further particulars concerning the new organ's staff and politics. However, from the advertisements that have so far appeared in the papers it seems to me to be pro-National Association[4] and, or so a friend in Berlin[5] writes, it might be feasible to exert a strong external influence on its stand. Write and let me know if you and Schily would act as joint correspondents for the paper, which evidently has fonds, should you get an invitation to this effect either direct from Berlin or via London! I should like to have an answer about the matter by return, because I would not, of course, drop any hints to this effect in Berlin unless I was certain of your accepting in Paris.

One merit of About's pamphlet[6] is that the current Gotha catch-phrases are here officially adopted for Bonapartist use.

I haven't seen Sasonow over here. Salut.

Your

K. M.

I would ask you to send on the letter to Lommel as soon as possible.

  1. ↑ In the manuscript, mistakenly: January.
  2. ↑ Marx quotes an extract from Ranickel's letter to Schily in Herr Vogt, present edition, Vol. 17.
  3. ↑ Eduard Fischel
  4. ↑ The German National Association (Deutscher National-Verein) was the party of the German liberal bourgeoisie favouring the unification of Germany (without Austria) under the aegis of the King of Prussia. The Association was set up in Frankfurt am Main in September 1859. Its supporters were nicknamed Little Germans.
  5. ↑ Probably Fischel.
  6. ↑ Ed. About, La Prusse en I860.
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