[London,] 20 September 1873 

My dear Oswald, 

I have written to Wréblewski,!” who is as fluent in Russian as he 
is in Polish, being Lithuanian by birth. 

4 Crossed out in the draft here: ‘Suppose even she was what you must have 
considered her when you recommended her to me, a sincere revolutionist, you still 
must know that there are a good many different sorts of them and that it would be 
impossible for any of us to identify ourselves publicly with every one of them. Not 
knowing anything of Miss Carroll's views, it might very possibly have been my duty 
to get up at the end of her speech and express my dissent from part of what she 
had said, and thus do more harm than good.’ - > Crossed out in the draft here: ‘which 
for me has no importance whatever’. 

If he does not agree I have another Russian (non-Polish) in 
petto.* 

Yours ever, 

Karl Marx