Manchester, [about 8 January 1865] 
58 Dover Street, Oxford Street 

My dear Jung, 
I felt rather shocked at reading in the ‘Beehive’ and the ‘Miner’ 
of this week that at our last Committee-sitting 

‘It was unanimously agreed to invite Messrs Beesly, Grossmith, Beales and 
Harrison, to the soirée which is to be held on the 16th’.2 

I do not mention the mere anachronism, that no such resolution 
was taken on last Tuesday’s sitting.> 

What I object to is the positive falsehood that Mr Grossmith was 
invited. 

This Grossmith, although he seldom or never attends our sittings, 
figures as a member of the Committee under all our addresses. 

How could our Committee invite a member of our Committee to a 
soirée given by our Committee? Shall this, perhaps, form a sort of 
premium to be gained by regular absence from our weekly 
séances? 

Since I cannot return to London before the end of next week, 
you'll much oblige me 

By asking at next Tuesday’s sitting, who is the writer of the 
report in the ‘Beehive’ and the ‘Miner’? 

Who empowered that writer to make our Committee the 
‘unconscious’ instrument of exalting Mr Grossmith? 

You will understand at once how important it is to nip in the 
bud any attempt at turning our Committee into the tool of local 
ambitions, or any sort of intrigues. 

a The Bee-Hive Newspaper, No. 169, 7 January 1865; The Miner and Workman’s 
Advocate, No. 97, 7 January 1865. - > on 3 January 

You will oblige me, by informing me, under the above 
address,—and supposing you to make the interpellation—what 
answer was given to you.” 

Salut et fraternité. 

K. Marx