Karl Marx 
A Reply to Kossuth's "Secretary" 


New-York Daily Tribune. 
Nr. 3656, 4. Januar 1853 


A Reply to Kossuth's "Secretary." 
To the Editor of The N.Y. Tribune 


London, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 1852. 


Sir: Itis some time since I sent you an explanation on my late correspondence 
respecting the movements of Kossuth and Mazzini, which caused such a 
noisy outburst from the American press. This explanation—in which I stated, 
among other things, that Kossuth himself was a perfect stranger to the 
different articles called forth by my correspondence, and that my intention 
had been rather to give a warning, etc., than to make an attack on the parties 
alluded to— was all I considered necessary to say on the subject, until I 
received the latest American newspapers containing a sort of official refuta- 
tion of my remarks from the pen of a pretended Secretary of Mr. Kossuth. 
With regard to this "document," I have to inform you that Kossuth, on being 
referred to, has assured me: 
1. That, at the present time, he keeps no Secretary at all. 

2. That the said "refutation" had not been written by his authorization. 

3. That he had not even known of it before he received my com- 
munication. 

After this "authorized" declaration I shall recur no more to the subject, 
leaving to the uncalled-for advocates to console themselves for their ill- 
applied zeal. 

Your 
Private Correspondent. 


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