London, 15 January 1866 
1 Modena Villas, Maitland Park, 
Haverstock Hill 

Dear Friend, 

A happy New Year and best thanks for your kind letter. 

You must excuse the brevity of these lines on account of my 
being excessively busy at present. I'll write more fully next time. 

I am enclosing two cards**’ and will let you know in my next 
letter which questions are to be dealt with at the public congress in 
Geneva at the end of May.” 

Our Association has made great progress. It already has 3 
official organs, one in London, The Workman’s Advocate, one in 
Brussels, La Tribune du Peuple, one put out by the French section 
in Switzerland, Journal de l’Association Internationale des Travailleurs, 
Section de la Suisse Romande (Geneva), and in a few days time a 
journal is to be put out by the German-Swiss section, Der Vorbote, 

4 See this volume, p. 215. - > August Vogt, Sigfrid Meyer and Theodor Metzner 

under the editorship of J. P. Becker. (Address: 6 rue du Mole, 
Genf, J. P. Becker, in case you wanted to send him an occasional 
article, political or social). 

We have succeeded in attracting into the movement the only 
really big workers’ organisation, the English ‘Trade Unions’, which 
previously concerned themselves exclusively with the wage ques- 
tion. With their help, the English society we founded to achieve 
Universal Suffrage* (half of its Central Committee consists of 
members—working men—of our Central Committee) held a giant 
MEETING a few weeks ago, at which only working men spoke.” You 
can tell what effect it had from the fact that the teapers of two 
successive issues of The Times were concerned with this megrinc.? 

As regards my work,‘ I am now busy 12 hours a day writing out 
the fair copy. I am thinking of taking the manuscript of the first 
volume to Hamburg myself in March and using the opportunity to 
see you. 

I was much amused by the antics of Justus von Méser’s 
successor.* How wretched a man of talent must be who seeks and 
finds satisfaction in trivialities of that kind! * 

As regards Burgers, he is doubtless well-meaning, but weak. It is 
not much over a year ago that he declared at a public merrine in 
Cologne (it appeared in print in the Cologne papers) that 
Schulze-Delitzsch had ‘solved’ the social question once and for all 
and that only personal friendship for me had induced him (Bürgers) 
to stray onto the tangled paths of communism! After such public 
statements, could I regard him as other than a ‘renegade’? 

Your most sincere friend 
K. Marx