IN LEIPZIG‘ 

{London,] 15 January 1866 
Dear Lisrary,? 

Happy New Year! 
You must excuse my silence, ditto the brevity of these lines of 
mine. You will not believe how sornerep I am for time. 

a Already they do not shrink from saying that they will make use of the 
Association to help to restore their nationhood, without concerning themselves with 
the question of the emancipation of the workers.’ - > ‘Le pére enfantin’ (‘The childish 
father’)—a pun on ‘Pére Enfantin’ (‘Father Enfantin’). An allusion to Le Lubez’ 
efforts to imitate the chief representative of the Saint-Simonian school, Barthélemy 
Prosper Enfantin. - © The letter bears the stamp: International Working Men’s 
Association / Central Council / London - 4 nickname for Wilhelm Liebknecht 

Indisposition, for ever recurring periodically, al] manner of 
unfortunate mischances, demands made on me by the International 
Association, etc., have confiscated every free moment I have for 
writing out the fair copy of my manuscript.* I hope to be able to 
take Volume I of it to the publisher for printing myself in 
March. (The whole thing, the two volumes, will, however, appear 
simultaneously2*? This is good.) 

So, this very much by way of summary. 

Today I am sending you by post the 2 latest issues of The 
Workman’s Advocate, of which Eccarius is now editor.‘ If, as I hope, 
you send any articles for it, please do so to me (political, social, as 
you will). 

I also enclose carps or memsersuip for you. I have paid for ‘hein: 
You can therefore give them to whomever you like, and have only 
to inscribe the name and after the £, put 0, but after the Os., Id. 

The conditions, GENERALLY, are these: a society as such that wishes 
to join has an Association collective membership Card, for which 5s. 
per year is to be paid. But, if all the members join individually, 
they have to take out cards of the kind I am sending you. This is 
advantageous for workers. The cards serve as a passport abroad, 
and their confréres* in London, Paris, Brussels, Lyons, Geneva, etc., 
will get jobs for them. 

The Association has made great progress. It already has 1 
official English paper, The Workman’s Advocate, a Brussels one, La 
Tribune du Peuple, a French one in Geneva, Journal de l’Association 
Internationale des Travailleurs, Section de la Suisse Romande, and a 
German one in Geneva, Der Vorbote, which will be appearing in a 
few days. Address: 6 rue du Mole, Genf, J. P. Becker, in case you 
want to write to the old man occasionally (as I hope you will). 

I am now hoping you will soon make it possible for me to 
announce the foundation of a Leipzig section and enable me to 
present correspondence. (In English. It can then be used in The 
Workman’s Advocate as well.) The number is not important, 
although THE Morr, THE BETTER. 

If people want to join en masse, as a society, you will see that the 
total price of 5s., which they have to pay annually, is nothing. 

J. P. Becker writes to me‘: 

‘Sections are going to be formed in Leipzig, Gotha, Stuttgart and Nuremberg; 

shall we register them here for the time being, until there is a large number and a 
Central Committee has been formed in Germany?’ 278 

a Capital - > Otto Meissner - ¢ See this volume, p. 224. - 4 colleagues - ¢ J. Ph. 
Becker to Karl Marx, 18 December 1865 

220 124, Marx to Kugelmann. 15 January 1866 

I have replied in the affirmative* However, since there can be 
several branches in one town, you and your people can establish 
links direct with us. 

I have had a second letter from the Berliners.” I am at last 
writing to them today.” Ditto to Dr Kugelmann. 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 

I will let you know next time what questions are to be dealt with 
at the Geneva Congress at the end of May.”