MARX TO BERTALAN SZEMERE '” 

Manchester, 13 March 1860 
6 Thorncliffe Grove, Oxford Road 

My dear Sir, 

I have not yet received your book." Otherwise I should have 
given a compte rendu” of it in the New-York Tribune. 

I sent you the article against Kossuth‘ on the express condition of 
its being returned to me. I attach not the least importance to that 
article, but I want it for specific purpose. 

I have instituted two actions for libel at Berlin and London 
against newspapers which had the impudence of reprinting 
extracts from Vogt's libel. I observed, for 10 years, a strict silence 
in the face of the most reckless calumnies, but I know that now the 
moment has arrived of publicly exposing them. 

My friend from whose house I am addressing these lines to you 
may perhaps (he is a merchant) become useful to you. Send him a 
catalogue (Mr Frederick Engels, care of Messrs Ermen and Engels, 
Manchester) of your wines. But do not use such fellows as 
Stoffregen for your agents. 

Yours truly 
Williams‘ 

In a few days I shall return to London.