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Title: Marx to Wilhelm Liebknecht, [London,] 20 September 1865
Description: Marx asks Liebknecht for an English report for the London Conference of the International, mocks Countess Hatzfeldt and Moses Hess, and announces The Workman's Advocate.
Author: Karl Marx
Date: 1865-09-20
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/originales/1865-09-20%20Marx%20to%20Wilhelm%20Liebknecht
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*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](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/1865-09-20%20Marx%20a%20Wilhelm%20Liebknecht)*

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.