MARX TO GEORGE RIVERS‘ 

{[London,] 24 August 1878 
41 Maitland Park Road, N. W. 

Dear Sir, 

The London Correspondent of the Berlin Vossische Zeitung‘ 
indulged in the bad joke that I had written a book Herr Bucher‘; 
thereupon the false rumour spread through Germany, and the 

a FE. Haeckel, Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre, Stuttgart, 1878, pp. 3-4. Engels 
quotes from Haeckel in German. - > lovingly - © In the original: ‘Naturforscherver- 
sammlung’. - ¢ Elard Biscamp - ¢ See this volume, p. 312. 

Prussian Police did its utmost to confirm it by domiciliary visits at 
the shops of several booksellers intended to catch copies of Herr 
Bucher. Thus, you see, Herr Bucher is a hoax. 

You will oblige me by sending me catalogues, if there be suit, of 
your American and secondhand books. 

Yours truly, 
Karl Marx