London, 14 November 1879 
41 Maitland Park Road, N. W. 

Dear Sorge, 

I am at last able to send you all the powers of attorney.* I didn’t 
get the others until the end of the week before last; they arrived 
when I was confined to the house by a most infamous cold and then, 
after that, my worthy solicitor contrived to spin out the affair for 
another week, and only today did I finally receive my power of 
attorney. The account both for these and the first one will be sent 
to you later. The other 3 (or rather 4) powers of attorney will 
go off to you at the same time as this letter—but under separate 
cover. 

You will doubtless have got my letter” in which I told you about 
the latest goings-on in the bosom of the party. Since then 
Hochberg and his associates° in Zurich have been removed, at least 
nominally, from the editorial committee which now sits in Leipzig, 
while Vollmar functions as editor in Zurich. His paper, Der 
Sozialdemokrat, isn’t worth much. But at any rate all our associates 
worth mentioning, Liebknecht, Bebel, Bracke, etc., have disowned 
Dr Héchberg’s, alias Richter’s, Jahrbuch,** though as yet only—in 
private. 

You will have seen in the papers that the anti-communist gang, 
composed of very heterogeneous elements, was finally defeated at 
the Marseilles Congress.” 

My wife is still dangerously ill and I myself am not yet 
completely fit. 

With kindest regards from my family. 

Your 
Karl Marx