39. Karl Marx. To the Editor of Public Opinion

PRIVATE LETTER

Sir,

I not only request you to insert the enclosed reply in your next number,⁽¹⁾ but I demand an ample and complete apology in the same place of your paper where you have inserted the libel.⁽²⁾

I should regret being forced to take legal proceedings against your paper.

Yours obediently,

K. M.

Written on August 19, 1871 First published in: Marx and Engels,

Reproduced from the rough manuscript

Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXIV, 1931

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Endnotes

(1) See this volume, p. 393.— Ed.

(2) "A German View of the Internationale", Public Opinion, No. 517, August 19, 1871.— Ed.