MARX TO WILLIAM RILEY“ 

(London,] 23 December 1872 

Dear Riley, 

When Hales sends his reply, the best thing will be to 
communicate it at once to me so that his letter and our reply may 
appear together in the same number.™ At the same time, you 
would then do well, to state in an editorial remark that after the 
things that have happened, especially his postcard,“* the columns 
of the Herald* will no longer be open to him. 

Yours fraternally 
Karl Marx