Haverstock-hill, N.W. June 30, 1871
Sir,
I have declared in The Daily News—and you have reprinted in The Pall Mall—that I hold myself alone responsible for the charges brought forward against "Jules Favre and Co." (1)
In your yesterday's publication you declare these charges to be "libels."(2) I declare you to be a libeller. It is no fault of mine that you are as ignorant as arrogant. If we lived on the Continent, I should call you to account in another way.—
Obediently,
Karl Marx
Published in The Pall Mall Gazette, Reproduced from The Pall Mall No. 1992, July 3, 1871, The Eastern Post, Gazette, verified with the manu-No. 145, July 8, 1871 and Nev£ Freie script Presse, No. 2465, July 7, 1871 (translated from The Pall Mall Gazette)
Endnotes
[234] 234 xhis letter was written by Marx in reply to the declaration of The Pall Mall Gazette that the accusations levelled by Marx against the Versailles Government in the General Council's Address The Civil War in France were libellous (see this volume, pp. 307-59). On July 3, The Pall Mall Gazette printed Marx's letter in an editorial entitled "The Regenerator Rampant", but at the same time made new attacks on him, arbitrarily quoting from Section One of the Address. On July 4, Marx informed the General Council about his letter and its publication in The Pall Mall Gazette.