MARX TO ENGELS*”’ 

London, 19 March 1870 
Dear Fred, 

Enclosed, the Marseillaise. which should, however, be returned 
with the previous ones. I haven’t read it myself yet. The article 
was written jointly by Jennychen and myself,*” as she hadn’t got 
SUFFICIENT TIME available. This is also why she hasn’t answered your 
letter, and why she is sending Mrs Lizzie her thanks for the 
SHAMROCK >”? provisionally through me. 

From the enclosed letter from Pigott to Jenny you will see that 
Mrs O’Donovan, to whom Jenny sent a private letter, together with 
1 Marseillaise,” took her for a gentleman, although she signed it 
Jenny Marx. I answered Pigott today on Jennychen’s behalf, and 
took the opportunity to explain to him briefly my views or THe Irisu 
Question.° 

a ‘The Fenian Convict O’Donovan Rossa’, The Times, 16 March 1870. - > Apparently 
carrying the second article by Jenny Marx from the Irish question series. 

Your int about Bruce’s falsification* has already been used in 
the letter Jenny sent yesterday to the Marseillaise.” We have Knox’ 
et Pollock’s Report‘ (but did not consult it) and ditto “Turcs not 
GENERALLY Known’. On the other hand, you would oblige me if you 
would send by return: 1. Lassalle’s publication against Schulze- 
Delitzsch, and 2. the book by ‘Clement’, the crazy Frisian.‘ 

The sensation caused in Paris and London by Jennychen’s 
second letter (containing the condensed TRANSLATION Of O’Donovan’s 
LETTER) has robbed Talandier of his sleep; he is loathsome and 
importunate (but very FLUENT with gob and pen). In the Marseillaise 
he had denounced the Irish as Caruo.ic wwiors. Now, equally 
FULLMOUTHED, he is taking their side in a review of what The Times, 
The Daily Telegraph and The Daily News have said about 
O’Donovan’s letter.°’? Since Jennychen’s second letter was left 
unsigned (sy accident), he obviously flattered himself with the idea 
that he would be taken for the secret sender. This was frustrated by 
Jennychen’s third letter. The fellow is, du reste, TEACHER oF FRENCH AT THE 
MILITARY SCHOOL OF Sandhurst. 

Last Tuesday‘ I was back again, for the first time, at a meeting 
of the Generar Councit.$ With me—Felix Holt, tHe Rascar.’ He 
had a very good time since, for a change, there was really 
something interesting going on. As you know, the prolétaires 
‘positivistes’ in Paris had sent a deputy to the Basle Congress. 
There was a discussion as to whether he should be admitted, since he 
represented a philosophical society and not a workers’ society 
(although he and his consorts all belong ‘personally’ to the workine 
ciass). Finally, he was admitted as a delegate of personal members of 
the ‘Internationale’. These fellows have now constituted themselves in 
Paris as a branche of the Internationale—an event about which the 
London and Paris Comtists have made a great russ. They thought 
that they had driven in THE THIN wedge. The Genrrat Council, being 
informed by the ‘prolétaires positivistes’ of their affiliation, reminded 
them politely that the Councn. could only permit their admission after 
examining their programme. So they sent a programme—real 
Comtist-orthodex—which was discussed last Tuesday. In the chair 
was Mottershead," a very intelligent (though anti-Irish) old Chartist, 

a See this volume, p. 455 - > The fourth article by Jenny Marx from the Irish 
question series. - ¢ [A. A. Knox and G. D. Pollock,] Report of the Commissioners on the 
Treatment of the Treason-Felony Convicts in the English Convict Prisons. - ¢ F. Lassalle, 
Herr Bastiat-Schultze von Delitzsch, der dkonomische Julian, oder: Capital und Arbeit; 
K. J. Clement, Schleswig, das urheimische Land des nicht dénischen Volks der Angeln und 
Frisen und Englands Mutterland, wie es war und ward. - © 15 March - £ Dakyns (see this 
volume, p. 423.). - § Gabriel Mollin - » See this volume, p. 386. 

and a personal enemy of, and expert on, Comtism.™ After a longish 
debate: Since they are workers they may be admitted as a simple 
branch. Not, however, as ‘branche positiviste’, since the principles 
of Comtism directly contradict our Rules. And anyway, it was their 
own affair how they reconciled their philosophical private views with 

those of our Rules. 
About the screeds from Solingen soon. 

Salut. 
Your 
Moro