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Title: Marx to Peter Le Neve Foster, Manchester, 28 May 1869
Description: Marx agrees to be proposed by the secretary of the Society of Arts in London as a member of the Society.
Author: Karl Marx
Date: 1869-05-28
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/originales/1869-05-28%20Marx%20to%20Peter%20Le%20Neve%20Foster
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*Letter from Karl Marx to Peter Le Neve Foster (1809-1879), secretary of the Society of Arts in London from 1853 to 1879, written in Manchester on 28 May 1869. The manuscript is kept at the London Metropolitan Archives (A/RSA/19M/132). Text from the manuscript, [MEGAdigital](https://megadigital.bbaw.de/briefe/detail.xql?id=M0001046) (MEGA² III/16, letter no. 151), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, CC BY-SA 4.0, without the editors’ apparatus. [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/1869-05-28%20Marx%20a%20Peter%20Le%20Neve%20Foster)*

Manchester, 28 May, 1869.

Sir,

I have to thank you for your letter offering me to be proposed as a member of the Society of Arts and beg to say in reply that I shall feel obliged if you will be kind enough to do so at an early opportunity.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant

Karl Marx

P. Le Neve Foster, Esq.