[ Draft] 

London, 3 February 1860 
9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, 
Haverstock Hill 

My dear Lelewel, 

I have not had the pleasure of corresponding with you since 
1848 when a letter of recommendation from you was brought to 
me in Cologne by a Pole.‘ I am writing to you today on a personal 
matter. 

One Vogt, a professor at Geneva, has published a pamphlet“ 
full of the most outrageous calumnies against my person and my 

@ Frederick-William IV - > on Lassalle’s advice - © Presumably Wtadystaw Kosciel- 
ski-¢ C. Vogt, Mein Prozess gegen die Allgemeine Zeitung, Geneva, 1859. 

D4 14. Engels to Marx. 4 February 1860 

political life. On the one hand, he represents me as a man of no 
account and on the other imputes to me the most infamous 
motives. He falsifies my entire past. Having had the privilege of 
enjoying a close relationship with you during my stay in 
Brussels—I shall never forget the embrace with which you 
honoured me on the occasion of the anniversary of the Polish 
Revolution on 22 February 1848°'—I would request you to 
address me a private letter in which you assure me of your 
friendship and testify to the nature of the honourable relations I 
maintained in Brussels with the Polish emigration.™ 
Fraternal greetings, 

Yours 
Charles Marx 

Mrs Marx, who asks to be remembered to you, has made a copy 
of this letter for your benefit, my handwriting being illegible.