[ Draft] [London,] 9 April 1860 

To G. Lommel. (Geneva) 
Citizen, 

I have been told by Siebel, whom I saw a day or two since at 
Freiligrath’s while on his way back from Switzerland, that a letter 
sent by me from Manchester on 26 February to the editors of the 
Neue Schweizer Zeitung,” and intended for you, has fallen into 
Brass’s hands. For I had been informed that you were the editor 
of the Neue Schweizer Zeitung, a paper I have never seen. It was in 
this belief that I wrote to you, since your name was known to me 
through its having featured with such great credit in the annals of 
the revolution. I would not have written to Mr Brass. 

What I wanted of you was to learn something about Vogt’s 
activities. Material concerning the activities of V. and other 
Bonapartist agents has been pouring in from people belonging to 
the emigrations of various countries and to the various schools of 
thought within the revolutionary party. But I wish to set to work 
with discrimination and a strict regard for the truth. A contribu- 
tion from you, with your intimate knowledge of how things stand 
in Switzerland, would therefore be of the utmost value to me. 

With regard to your book Hinter den Coulissen, a copy of which 
was given me by Siebel, I found this of great interest and believe it 
is important that the second part should appear. In the case of the 
latter, I might be able to get hold of a financially reliable bookseller 
for you over here. With regard to part I, I think I could dispose of 
300 copies at 1 franc apiece, partly by direct sales at the various 
societies in London, partly through booksellers. But first the 
copies would have to be here. If this appeals to you, send the copies 
to the booksellers ‘Petsch, etc., London’. 

Finally, I have one more proposal to make you. My friend 
J. Weydemeyer (previously co-editor of the Neue Deutsche Zeitung 
in Frankfurt) has given up his post as Depury-Surveyor in the state 
of Wisconsin at the request of the Workers’ League in the United 
States (which has moved its headquarters from New York to 
Chicago),'* in order to take over the editorship in Chicago of Die 
Stimme des Volks, a daily paper founded by the Working Men’s and 

Gymnastic Club.'”? I have been asked by him to enlist correspon- 
dents in Europe, and this I have done over here, in Paris and in 
Berlin. I am taking the liberty of inviting you to act as 
correspondent for Switzerland, initially on the basis of one 
contribution per week. Fee 2 dollars (10 frs.) per article— 
payments, as might be expected from a paper of this kind and 
particularly at the outset, will be modest for the time being, but 
will improve as the paper grows. Hitherto there has been only one 
daily in the state of Mlinois, the Staatszeitung* Day by day, 
however, Chicago is increasingly becoming the centre of the entire 
North-West of America, where there is a very large German 
population. I can guarantee prompt payment. If you agree to this 
proposal, will you start straight away this week and be good enough 
to advise me. The address is: 

. Weydemeyer, care or Chicago Arbeiterverein, sox 1345, 
Chicago (Illinois), United States. 

To come back to Vogt, you will have seen a statement of mine 
(beginning of February)’ in various German newspapers to the 
effect that I shall reply to his lampoon‘ after settlement of the 
libel action I have brought against the Berlin National-Zeitung for 
printing excerpts from Vogt’s concoction.‘ 

On pp. 180-181 (cf. the passage) Vogt speaks of a ‘conspiracy’ 
he foiled at the Lausanne working men’s festival. Can you give me 
any information about this piece of boasting? The passage runs as 
follows: '°? What is the truth of the matter? 

Finally, I would take the liberty of pointing out that your 
account of Vogt’s activities, which you could send me in the form 
of a letter, thereby finding yourself in the highly honourable 
company of other refugees (though it cannot appear until later by 
reason of the lawsuit in Berlin‘), would figure in my pamphlet‘ as 
a section in its own right, contributed by you, and I would, of 
course, pass on to you the fee per sheet paid me by the publisher 
in respect of the section you had contributed. I say this because I 
know full well what it is to be a refugee, having myself lived under 
those conditions almost uninterruptedly for seventeen years, and it 
would be most unjust if one of us were to accept payment from a 
publisher at the expense of another. Owing to the lawsuit in 

a Die Tégliche Illinois Staats-Zeitung - > K. Marx, “To the Editors of the Volks-Zeitung. 
Declaration’, 6 February 1860. - © C. Vogt, Mein Prozess gegen die Allgemeine Zeitung, 
Geneva, 1859. - 4 ‘Kar] Vogt und die Allgemeine Zeitung’ and ‘Wie man radikale 
Flugblatter macht’, National-Zeitung, Nos. 37 and 41, 22 and 25 January 1860. - © See 
this volume, pp. 40-45 and 59-76. -£ Herr Vogt 

Berlin and also because Vogt’s main attack, etc., is directed against 
me, my pamphlet will be in great demand and will find a good 
publisher in Germany. One is inclined to ask whether a 
concentration of attacking forces would not be desirable in the 
interests of the cause. On that point you will, of course, be entirely 
your own judge and under no circumstances should you 
misconstrue my plain speaking. 
With fraternal greetings, 

Yours truly, 
K. M. 

When writing to me, address your letters: A. Williams,* Esq., 
9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, Haverstock Hill, London.