Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels 
To the Editor of "The Times" 
March 20 or 21, 1871 


To the Editor of the Times 


Sir 
In your impression of the 16° March your Paris correspondent states: 
"Karl Marx has written a letter to one of his principal affiliés in Paris, 


stating that he is not satisfied with the attitude which the members of that 
society (the "International") have taken up in that city etc." This statement 
your correspondent has evidently taken from the Paris Journal of the 
14" March where also the publication, in full, of the pretended letter is 
promised. The Paris Journal of the 19" March does indeed contain a 
letter dated London 28" February 1871 and purporting to be signed by me, 
the contents of which agree with the statement of your correspondent. I now 
beg to declare that this letter is, from beginning to end, an impudent 


forgery. |