{[London,] 4 May 1871 

Dear Lisrary,* 

Just this in great haste. 

The Papiers et correspondance de la famille impériale, in which Vogt 
figures among others as someone who was subsidised from the 
official coffers,” were not published by the Commune, which has no 
time for such trivia, but by the gouvernement de la défense, i.e. by 
Jules Favre et Co., the honest republicans so greatly admired by 
Vogt in his letters to Kolb.” 

Extracts from these official publications (and particularly the 
names of those who received subsidies) were printed in almost all the 
Paris papers. The cutting I enclose comes from the Petit Journal 
(issue of 3 May 1871‘), a paper which to this very day is 
conducting in Paris the same sort of campaign against the 
Commune as Signor Vogt in Vienna. From a sense of spiritual 
affinity with Vogt it even prints a (?) after his name. 

Meanwhile, Vogt himself retracts all his talk when he says at the 
end of his gibberish: 

‘It is even possible that my name was misused as far back as 1859, albeit, so it 
seems, without my first name Karl.’4 

So Louis Bonaparte misused ‘Vogt’ by inscribing his name in his 
expenses-book! ‘Vogt’ as someone subsidised by Louis Bonaparte 
in August 1859-—-and moreover, just plain ‘Vogt’, Vogt without 
‘first name’, Vogt sans phrase—naturally, that could only be the 
‘celebrated’ Karl Vogt of Geneva! Mr Vogt is so well aware of that 
that he says ‘my name was misused’. The good man feels so stung 
that he forgets to have recourse to the simple evasion: Just as 
there are many ‘Karls’ in the world, so too are there many ‘Vogts’. 
What does it matter to me if some ‘Vogt’ or other without a first 
name received 40,000 frs in August 1859 from the Emperor’s 
central treasury? No, says Vogt, I am the Vogt, the Vogt to whom 

a This nickname was given to Liebknecht by Marx’s daughters. - » See this volume, 
p. 130. - © In the original a slip of the pen. The correct date is 25 March 1871 (see 
this volume, p. 146). - 4 C. Vogt, ‘An die Redaktion des Schweizer Handels-Couriers’, 
Der Volkssiaat, No. 36, 3 May 1871. 

people refer even without ‘first name’, but ‘my name’ has been 
‘misused’! 

You must use all this to make the necessary statement in your 
paper. It is quite absurd to mince words for the sake of Mr Wei8 

and similar ‘People’s Partyites’.”” 

Your 
K. M.