London, 7 October 1868 
1 Modena Villas, Maitland Park, N. W. 

Dear Sir, 

In reply to your esteemed letter,'” the following: 

1. You must not wait for the second volume, the publication of 
which will be delayed by perhaps another 6 months. I cannot 
finish it, until certain official enquétes,* instituted during last year 
(and 1866) in France, the Unirep Srares and England, have been 
completed or published. In any case, Volume I constitutes a 
whole, complete in itself. 

2. Enclosed is my photogram. 

3. Socialist literature does not exist in the Unrrep States. There 
are only workers’ papers. 

4. I myself possess no collection of my works, which were 
written in various languages and published in various places. Most 
of them are out of print. 

Since I am unable to meet your request in this respect— la plus 
belle fille de France ne peut donner que ce qu’elle a—I shall have to 
confine myself to giving you some brief notes on my literary-political 
activity, which you might be able to use in the preface to your 
translation.'8 

Dr K. Marx, born 1818 in Trier (Rhenish Prussia). 

1842-43: Redacteur en chef of the Rheinische Zeitung (Cologne). 
This newspaper is forcibly suppressed by the Prussian govern- 
ment. Marx goes to Paris; publishes there, together with Arnold 
Ruge, the Deutsch-Franzésische Jahrbiicher (Paris, 1844). At the end 
of 1844, Marx is expelled from France by Guizot; proceeds to 
Brussels. Together with Friedrich Engels publishes Die heilige 
Familie, oder Kritik der kritischen Kritik. Gegen Bruno Bauer und 
Consorten (Frankfort on the Main, 1845). (This work, like the essays 
by Marx in the Deutsch-Franzésische Jahrbiicher,* are directed against 
the ideological mysticism of Hegelian and, in general, speculative 
philosophy.) Also published during the stay in Brussels: Misére de 

186 

a enquiries -> the most beautiful girl in France can only give what she 
has - ¢ Editor-in-Chief - 4 On the Jewish Question and Contribution to the Critique of 
Hegel's Philosophy of Law. Introduction. 

la philosophie. Réponse a la Philosophie de la misére de M. Proudhon 
(Brussels and Paris, 1847). 

Discours sur le libre Echange (Brussels, 1848'*°). Finally, at the 
beginning of 1848, together with Friedrich Engels: Manifest der 
Kommunistischen Partei (London). 

Shortly after the outbreak of the February revolution, Marx is 
expelled from Belgium; receives at the same time from the French 
provisional government an invitation to return to France*; 
proceeds to Paris and, in April 1848, to Cologne (Germany), 
publishing there: 

Neue Rheinische Zeitung (from June 1848 to May 1849). Also 
there: 

Zwet Politische Prozesse (Cologne, 1849). (Containing the trial 
proceedings and Marx’s defence speeches at the Assizes.? Marx 
charged on one occasion with insulting the procureur du roi,“ and on 
the other, after the Prussian coup d’état (Manteuffel), with inciting 
rebellion. In both cases Marx acquitted by the jury.) 

In the course of May 1849, the Neue Rheinische Zeitung is 
suppressed by the Prussian government and Marx expelled from 
Prussia.? Proceeds once more to Paris. Again expelled from 
France‘; proceeds at the end of October 1849 to London, where he 
still resides. During his stay there, publishes: 

Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Politisch-dkonomische Revue (1850, Ham- 
burg and New York). 

Der 18te Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte (New York, 1852). 

Enthüllungen tiber den Kommunisten-Prozess zu Koln (1853, two 
editions, one in Basle, one in Boston, Unrrep Srares). 

Fiy.sHeers against Lorp Patmersron' (London, Birmingham, Glasgow, 
1853-1854). 

Zur Kritik der politischen Ockonomie (Berlin, 1859). 

Herr Vogt (London, 1860). 

1851-1861, continuous contributions in English to the New-York 
Tribune, Putnam’s Revue’ and The New American Cyclopedia 

1864: The foundation programme of the ‘International WorkiNc- 
MEN’s Association’, that is: Appress To THE Workinc Prope or Evrore and 

a See ‘Ferdinand Flocon to Marx in Brussels. Paris, March 1, 1848’ (present 
edition, Vol. 6, p. 649). - b K. Marx and F. Engels, “The First Trial of the Neue 
Rheinische Zeitung’ and ‘The Trial of the Rhenish District Committee of 
Democrats’. - © Royal Prosecutor (Zweiffel) - 4 See present edition, Vol. 9, p. 
496. - © Ibid., pp. 526-27. -£ K. Marx, Lord Palmerston. - 8 See present edition, 
Vols. 11-18. -5 K. Marx, Inaugural Address of the Working Men’s International 
Association. In: Address and Provisional Rules of the Working Men’s International 
Association... 

the Rules of the Association,’ later (1866) definitively sanctioned at 
the congress of the International Working Men’s Association at 
Geneva. Marx continuously, up to the present, MEMBER OF THE GENERAL 
Counci. OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKINGMEN’S ASSOCIATION, AND ITS SECRETARY 

FOR GERMANY. 
1867: Das Kapital etc. 

Yours faithfully, 
Karl Marx