| 12 July, 1871.
1, Modena Villas,
Maitland Park,
Haverstock Hill, N.W.
Sir,
I send you together with
these lines the following publications of the General Council of the
“International”
:
1)
“Inaugural
Address and Provisional Rules”
.
2)
“Rules of the Intern. Workingmen’s
Association”
as definitively accepted by the Geneva
Congress of 1866
.
3)
“Resolutions
of the Congress of Geneva, 1866, and the Congress of Brussels,
1868.”
4) “
Report of the
General Council to the Brussels Congress” (
Times
, 9 September 1868)
5)
“The Belgian
massacres”
.
6)
“Address to
the National Labour Union of the United States”
.
7)
“Report of the
Fourth Annual Congress, held at Basle 1869.”
8)
“Irish
Amnesty.”
9)
“Lock
[-]
out of the Building Trades at
Geneva”
.
10)
“Programme of the Fifth Annual
Congress”
.
N.B. The meeting of this Congress was prevented by the Franco-Prussian
War.
11)
Two Addresses on the Franco-Prussian
War
.
12)
Address on the “Civil War in France”
.
13) I enclose a written copy of the
“Address to Abraham
Lincoln”
and
his
reply
.
This list, though not
complete, contains the most important documents published by the General
Council.
An
Address to the American Committee of the “International”
—which is just printing—I shall forward you
to-morrow.
Yours truly
Karl Marx
A. O. Rutson, Esq.