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Dr Krichevsky—Weggis 
1. You say: ‘V. Zasulich’s and Plekhanov’s intention was, it is true, 

[London, July 1894] 

* Hellmut von Gerlach - ° sense of honour 

known to us long before the 10" of May, but only at third hand’. The said 
third hand was that of Mr J. Blumenfeld, whose address, 3 Ch. de la 
Roseraie, Genéve, is the only one supplied on the jacket of your edition of 
[K. Marx, Wage Labour and Capital]". According to the self-same advice, 
even subscriptions to Kautsky’s work,” are to be sent to the same address (no 
other being supplied). If, therefore, V. Zasulich and Plekhanov sent the 
information in question to what was your Library’s sole official address, this 
was perfectly adequate and it is puerile, anarchistic casuistry to describe it as 
information at third hand. 

2. The moment you were in receipt of that information you were more 
than ever bounden to address yourself to me as the only person having the 
right to decide between the two claimants in this case. You did not do so 
because you already knew what my answer would be, because you wished to 
steal a march on V. Zasulich and Plekhanov in a dishonourable manner, and 
were counting on my bowing to a fait accompli. You were totally mistaken, 
because generally mistaken, in regard to the times, imagining that, at the 
present state of development both of the European and of the Russian 
socialist movement, it would be possible to revert to the old prevarications 
and impertinencies of a Bakunin or a Nechayev and this time, what’s more, 
with success.