I have the honor to send you, for insertion in your Weekly—if 
you judge the contribution sufficiently interesting for your 
readers—a short relation of my daughter Jenny on the persecu- 
tions she and her sisters, during their stay at Bagnéres de Luchon 
(Pyrenees),” had to undergo at the hands of the French 
Government. This tragico-comical episode seems to me charac- 
teristic of the Republic-Thiers. 

The news of my death was concocted at Paris by the Avenir 
libéral,” a Bonapartist paper. 

Since Sunday last a private Conference of the delegates of the 
International Workingmen’s Association is sitting at London. The 
proceedings will terminate to-day. 

With my best thanks for the highly interesting papers you had 
the kindness to send me, 

I have the honor, Mesdames, to remain, 
Yours most sincerely, 

Karl Marx 

Weekly, No. 23/75, October 21, 1871 

4 See this volume, pp. 622-32.— Ed. 
b “Paris, le 4 septembre 1871. Derniéres Nouvelles”, L’Avenir libéral, No. 376, 
September 5, 1871.— Ed.