MARX TO JOHANN PHILIPP BECKER ”’ 

{London,] 11 February 1873 

Dear Becker, 

The second fascicle of the French translation* has just been 
published. You will have received it, if it has not been 
intercepted, before the arrival of these lines. 

The German instalments to you and to others have obviously 
been intercepted. In a few weeks the whole first volume will 
appear*” and I shall have it sent to you through a bookseller. I 
would be grateful if you could acknowledge receipt. 

I can do absolutely nothing for Kostecki. 1. I am myself tn HIGH 
pressure, I have run myself significantly into debt on behalf of 
Messteurs les réfugiés francais, who, in consequence, do nothing but 
heap abuse on my head; 2. Mr Kostecki was by no means sent off 
because of me, far from it. He could not maintain himself in 
London and told me that he would go to Galicia and wanted help 
from the International; I told him that its coffers were empty, but 
added that something could possibly be done for him once he had 
arrived in Geneva. 3. All this took place long before the Hague 
Congress. Kostecki had taken his leave of me, but I met him long 
afterwards in the street in London and then heard nothing 
further. Since then everything has changed. Our ties with Galicia, - 
where many Poles have gone from here since then, are active and 
in good order, and this is true also of other parts of Poland. So no 
new emissary is required. Moreover, Wrdblewski thinks nothing of 
Kostecki, who is in general held in little regard by our Polish 
people. 

I shall be writing to you in the next few days about relations 
within the International.° 

Your 
K. M.