The following will serve as a reply to the note of Herr Bornstedt 
and others which was this morning left with Marx: 

1. Marx has not the least intention of rendering anybody an 
account for any German newspaper article. 

2. Marx has not the least intention of giving an account to any 
committee or deputation of the German Democratic Society with 
which he has nothing to do. 

3. If Herr Bornstedt and Herr Herwegh demand explanations in 
their personal capacity and not as members of any committee or 
society, then Herr Bornstedt has already once before privately and 
also once publicly been told to whom they should address 
themselves. 

Engels, Collected Works, first ed., Vol. XXV, Engels’ hand