[London,] 21 June 1872 

Dear Friend, 

I received what you sent on 7 June yesterday (together with the 
enclosed report).™ 

You will in the meantime have received my second letter,’ ditto 
Le Moussu’s letter, which definitively formulates the Council’s 
position for the United States. 

The next Congress will be held on the first Monday in 
September 1872 in The Hague (Holland) 450__the official notifica- 
tion will be sent to New York next week. It simply will not do for 
you to fob us off with a memorandum. At this Congress the life 
or death of the International will be at stake. You yourself and at least 
one other, if not two, must attend. As for the sections which do not 
send delegates directly, they can send mandates (mandates for dele- 
gates). 

The Germans for me, F. Engels, Lochner, Karl Pfander, Lessner. 

The French for G. Ranvier, Auguste Serraillier, Le Moussu, 
Ed. Vaillant, F. Cournet, Ant. Arnaud. 

The Irish for MacDonnel, who is doing very well, or if they 
prefer, for one of the above-named Germans or French. 

Naturally, only 1 delegate for each section, however numerous, 
unless it has over 500. 

4 See this volume, p. 388. 

You will already know of the beautiful Belgian project to revise 
the Rules.? It stems from Hins, an ambitieux impuissant,” who, to- 
gether with his Russian wife, takes orders from Bakounine. One 
of its finest features is the abolition of the General Council.”** The 
whole plan has been deservedly hauled over the coals in La 
Emancipacién (Madrid), the organ of the Spanish Federal Coun- 
cil.**” The same paper gave enthusiastic approval to our American 
resolutions. : 

From the enclosed copy of the Egalité you will see that the 
Congrés Romand has also rapped Hins over the knuckles. 

I am sending you by post 4 copies of the Circulaire of the GENERAL 
Counci. on Les prétendues scissions dans l’Internationale“ Engels has 
despatched 200 to you per PARCEL COMPANY. 

As for my Capital, the first German instalment will be published 
next week,” ditto the first French instalment in Paris. You will 
be getting copies of both regularly from me for you and some of 
your friends. Of the French edition (the title-page of which reads, 
by no means as a mere phrase, ‘entiérement révisée par l’auteur’,* for 
I have had the devil of a job with it), 10,000 copies have been 
printed and 8,000 sold already before publication of the first 
instalment. 

In Russia, books after printing is completed but before they are 
released to the public, must be submitted to the censorship 
authority, which must file suit in court if it does not want to pass 
them. 

They write me as follows from Russia regarding the Russian 
translation (a masterly one) of my book: 

‘In the censorship office two censors went over the work and laid their 
conclusions before the censorship committee. Even before the examination it was 
decided in principle not to hold this book up merely because of the author’s name, 
but to make a close investigation of how far it really corresponds to its title. The 
following is a summary of the conclusion that was unanimously adopted by the 
censorship committee and submitted to the Main Administration for decision: 

‘“Although the author, according to his convictions, is a thorough-going socialist, 
and the whole book has a quite definite socialist character, nevertheless, in view of 
the fact that the presentation can by no means be called accessible to everyone and 
that, on the other hand, it possesses the form of a rigidly mathematical scientific 
demonstration, the Committee declares the prosecution of this book in court to be 
impossible.” ’ 546 

4 ‘Congrés ouvrier belge’, L’Internationale, No. 176, 26 May 1872. - > ambitious 
nonentity - © K. Marx and F. Engels, Fictitious Splits in the International. - 4 fully 
revised by the author 

Accordingly it was allowed out into the world. Three thousand 
copies have been printed. It was made available to the Russian 
public on 27 March, and 1,000 copies had been sold by 15 May 
already. 

In his announcement of my book the primeval KNow-.Not Hinc lout 
Heinzen found cause for amusement at the statement on the 
title-page: “Translation rights reserved’. Who would want to 
translate such nonsense! The book was obviously written merely in 
order that Karl Heinzen shouldn’t understand it. 

We have issued a French translation of the Address on THE Civil 
War, price 2 '/ed. per copy.” If wanted in the United States, please 
write. 

Regarding the Nicholson affair, it is best not to say anything 
about it in the General Council for the present.™*” 

Salut. 

Yours, 
K. M.