[London,] 8 April 1869 

Dear Frep, 

I wrote to Wilhelmchen immediately today, as you suggested.™ I 
added that it would be good if the price could be fixed, even at a 
minimum, above the cost, so that this surplus could be used to pay 
for INDIVIDUAL CARDS OF MEMBERSHIP (Id. each). According to the 
Lausanne” and Brussels '** decisions, representatives cannot be 
admitted to congress if their commettants’? have not contributed to 
the national levy.” 

The thing I liked best in Zukunft was the decision of the High 
Court of Justice on the freedom of assembly of the Prussian 
subjects.“ This beats the French courts holo“ And this scurvy 
Kirchmann with his scurvy critics,° is fine and successful. This is 
the same Kirchmann who, a few years ago, proved the immortality 
of the soul. His works, in any case, are not immortal. 

a mandataries - > ‘Procés-verbaux du congrés de |’Association Internationale des 
Travailleurs réuni 4 Lausanne du 2 au 8 septembre 1867’, p. 37. ‘Troisiéme 
Congrés de l’Association Internationale des Travailleurs...’ Supplément au journal 
Le Peuple belge, 24 septembre 1868. - ¢ ‘In Bezug auf das Vereins und Versam- 
mlungs-Gesetz ist vom Obertribunal folgender Rechtsgrundsatz angenommen 
worden...’, Die Zukunft, No. 61, 13 March 1869. - 4 completely - ¢ ‘V. Kirchmann’s 
Aesthetik’, Die Zukunft, Nos. 71 and 72; 25 and 26 March 1869. (Anonymous 
review of J.H. v. Kirchmann’s Aesthetik auf realistischer Grundlage, in two 
vols.) - f J. H. Kirchmann, Ueber die Unsterblichkeit. Ein philosophischer Versuch. 

184, Marx to Ludlow. 10 April 1869 259 

The enclosed letter?’ shows the frame of mind of the workers 

in the Rhine province about the Barmen-Elberfeld Congress. 
Schweitzer had forgotten that Robespierre did not answer 
accusations only when he was sure of his cause, or when he could 
answer with the guillotine. But the corrupriste should not take the 
INCORRUPTIBLE as their model. 

Salut. 
Your 
K. M.