[London,] 16 March 1877 

My dear Friend, 

A member of the House or Commons (an Irishman‘) intends to 
bring a motion—next week—to the effect that the English 
government should call upon the Russian government to 
introduce the reforms (in Russia), which it declares to be necessary 
in respect of Turkey. He wants to take advantage of the occasion 
by speaking of the horrors that are occurring inside Russia. I have 

2 C, Gambuzzi, Sulla tomba di Giuseppe Fanelli. - > the same - © See K. Marx and 
F. Engels, The Alliance of Socialist Democracy and the International Working Men’s 
Association (see present edition, Vol. 23, p. 497). - 4 Keyes O’Clery 

already supplied him with a few details about the measures taken 
by the Russian government against the refractory Poles of the 
United Church. Could you make a brief résumé—in French—of 
judicial and police persecution inside Russia in recent years? Since 
time is short—I was only informed of the matter today—and 
something is better than nothing, could you, since these incidents 
are fresher in your memory than in mine, do this ‘something’? I 
believe that would be of great service to your suffering compat- 
riots.” 

As to Mrs Utin, I can make absolutely nothing of it, but I shall 
CROSS-EXAMINE HER AT THE NEXT INTERVIEW. Had she not, on various 
occasions and in the presence of my wife and myself,expressed the 
wish to see you, we should not have breathed a word of it. 

Yours ever, 

Karl Marx