Letter to William Harrison Riley, December 23, 1872

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Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 23 December 1872


First published in English in: Unbekanntes von Friedrich Engels und Karl Marx. Part I: 1840-1874. Ed. by Bert Andreas, Jacques Grandjonc, Hans Pelger. Papers of the Karl-Marx-Haus, Trier, 1986
First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 50, Moscow, 1981
Reproduced from the original
Published in English in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44
Keywords : Letter, William Harrison Riley


MARX TO WILLIAM RILEY

IN LONDON

[London,] 23 December 1872

Dear Riley,

When Hales sends his reply, the best thing will be to communicate it at once to me so that his letter and our reply may appear together in the same number.[1] At the same time, you would then do well, to state in an editorial remark that after the things that have happened, especially his postcard, the columns of the Herald[2] will no longer be open to him.

Yours fraternally

Karl Marx

  1. ↑ The reference is to the reply by John Hales to Marx's and Engels' letter of 20 December 1872 to the editor of The International Herald, which exposed the divisive activities of the reformist wing of the British Federal Council. Hales' reply written on 30 December was published in The International Herald, No. 40, 4 January 1873. 'Our reply' is a reference to the 'Address of the British Federal Council to the Sections, Branches, Affiliated Societies and Members' adopted at the Federal Council meeting of 23 December (see present edition, Vol. 23, pp. 309-14). It was written by Marx and distributed as a leaflet signed by ten Council members in response to the reformist circular of 10 December.
  2. ↑ The International Herald
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