Letter from Karl Marx («A. Williams») to Wilhelm Liebknecht («Miller») in Berlin, [London,] 20 September 1865. Manuscript kept at the IISG, Amsterdam (Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels Papers, inv. C 497-521, image 14), transcribed from the digital facsimile by the Escuela de marxismo, 2026 (double reading and collation with the image). Diplomatic transcription: spelling and punctuation of the manuscript; underlinings in italics; deletions as text; [?] after an uncertain reading, [ilegible] for what cannot be read. Traducción al español
20 Sept. 1865.
Dear Miller,
I received yours yesterday afternoon, too late to post a letter here. Illness had much todo with my protracted silence. There were other reasons which I think useless now to dwell upon. Much business pressing upon my time just now, I can only return these few lines.
A Report (English, of course) on your part is very important. It must be here on Monday next. (25 Sept.) It canot[?] [ilegible] arrive timely unless you send me the letter directly by the Leipzig post.
The Swiss have chosen two Delegates, Mons. Dupleix, a Frenchman, and Mr. Philip Becker, a German.
Ould Hatzfeldt dwells at Paris, where the old hag is intriguing with the „horn-bearing" father of „Socialism", Moses, her most cringing slave. It was at her instigation, that he inserted his „warning" in the „Nordstern" and his slander into the „Soc-Demo[?]." She is now concocting with him the „Apotheosis" of her own belated „Oedipus." The London correspondent of the „Soc-Dem." seems to be cracked Weber. All these things have been reported to me from Paris. As to myself, I carefully abstain from taking any notice whatever of what is going on in the Berlin and Hamburg „organs" of the movement. That socalled movement is so disgusting a thing that the less you hear of it the better.
We have founded here a weekly paper of our own „The Workman's Advocate". You will oblige by sending correspondence (English) for it for it to my address. Yours truly
A. Williams.