{[London,] 9 November 1871 

Dear Friend, 

I sent you 100 copies of the Conference resolutions* the day 
before yesterday, 50 in EncusH and 50 in Frencu. 

This week 1,000 copies of the English REVISED AND OFFICIAL STATUTES 
and Recutations” will be sent to you. Try to sell them. 

The General Council has large expenditures to make as a result of 
the various tasks it was set by the Conference. 

We shall have an official French edition of the RrEvisep Statutes, 
etc., printed in Geneva, and the official German edition printed in 
Leipzig. Write and tell us approximately how many copies of each 
will be required in the United States. 

A section of the International, Section frangaise de 1871 (about 
24 strong), has been formed here among the Frencu refugees, which 
immediately clashed with the Genera. Councn. because we de- 
manded changes in its Rules.*** It will probably result in a suit. 
These people are working together with some of the French 
refugees in Switzerland, who in turn are intriguing with the men 
of the Alliance de la démocratie socialiste (Bakunin), which we 
dissolved.**? The object of their attack is not the governments and 
ruling classes of Europe, allied against us, but the General Council 
of London, and particularly my humble self. This is their 
gratitude for my having spent nearly 5 months working for the 
refugees and having acted as their vindicator through the Address 
on the Civil War.“ 

I defended them even at the Conference, where the delegates 
from Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, and Holland expressed their 
misgivings lest the General Council endanger its international 
character through too large an admixture of French refugees.*”° 
But in the eyes of these ‘Internationalists’ it is in itself a sin for 
‘German’ influence (because of German science) to predominate in 
the Genera Councit. 

a K. Marx and F. Engels, ‘Resolutions of the Conference of Delegates of the 
International Working Men’s Association Assembled at London from 17th to 23rd 
September 1871’. - > K. Marx, General Rules and Administrative Regulations of the 
International Working Men’s Association. - © K. Marx, The Civil War in France. 

As for the New York Centra, Committee,” the following: 

1. According to the Conference decisions, see II, 1, in the 
future, it must call itself Feperat Councit or FrepeRaL COMMITTEE OF THE 
United States. 

2. As soon as a much larger number of srancues has been 
established in the different States, the most practical thing to do 
will be to call a congress of the different sections—following the 
example of Belgium, Switzerland, and Spain*—to elect a Federal 
Councit or Committee in New York. 

3. FEDERAL COMMITTEES can in turn be established in the different 
States—as soon as they have a sufficient number of srancues—for 
which the New York Committers will function as the central point. 

4. The definitive special Rules, both of the New York Federal 
Committee and of the committees yet to be established, must be 
submitted to the Genera. Counc. for sanction before their 
publication.” 

We are making rapid progress in Italy. A great triumph over 
the Mazzini party. The progress in Spain is also considerable. A 
new section has been established in Copenhagen, which already 
has 1,500 members and publishes its own paper, Socialisten. 

The Brunswick court’s indictment of the local Ex-Committee, 
Bracke and comrades, has been transmitted to me—an infamous 
document.**” 

All of us regret that you intend to resign from the Committee. I 
trust, however, that your decision is not final. I myself often think 
of doing the same, as the affairs of the International take too 
much of my time and interrupt my theoretical work. 

Apropos. 1 should like to have 12 copies of Woodhull’s etc. Weekly 
of 21 October, containing my daughter’s story.” Only by accent 
did we see a copy of this issue. 

Salut fraternel, 

Karl Marx