ENGELS TO WILHELM LIEBKNECHT 
IN LEIPZIG 
Manchester, 21 September 1865 

Dear Liebknecht, 

It was bad luck that you chose to write to me just as I was 
leaving for 3 weeks on the Continent,’ so that I only found your 

4 Moses Hess - > Ferdinand Lassalle - © Louis Weber - 4 Der Social-Demokrat and 
Nordstern - ¢ Marx’s conspiratorial pseudonym 

102. Marx to Jung. 30 September 1865 191 

letter* waiting for me on my return. The £5 banknote B/V 68754, 
Manchester, 16 January 1865, encl. as requested. 

I cannot write much today, as I want to get the banknote sent 
off as well; but I will just say that Marx has, of course, every 
reason to be angry with you. The manner in which you rebutted 
Becker’s” absurd allegations against Marx in your Berlin defence- 
speech was exceedingly weak and incompetent, and in respect of 
both the Bangya-affair' and several others you twisted the facts 
as much as did Mr Becker, although you could easily have gained 
better knowledge by referring to Herr Vogt?** These are extremely 
disagreeable matters, which Madame Hatzfeldt will now purvey to 
the world in this distorted form, and with your seal of approval,‘ 
and you demand that Moor should take all that so calmly? 

Your 
F. E. 
First published in: Marx and Engels, Printed according to the original 
Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXIX, . ‘ ) . 
Moscow, 1946 Published in English for the first 
time 
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