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Title: Marx to Victor Le Lubez, Manchester, 14 June 1870
Description: In a draft reply Marx asks Le Lubez who told him that he was the London correspondent of the Volksstaat and the author of an article about him.
Author: Karl Marx
Date: 1870-06-14
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/originales/1870-06-14%20Marx%20to%20Victor%20Le%20Lubez
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*Letter (draft) from Karl Marx to Victor Le Lubez in London, Manchester, 14 June 1870. Written in English. Text after a photocopy of the manuscript of the draft, [MEGAdigital](https://megadigital.bbaw.de/briefe/detail.xql?id=M6349469) (MEGA² III/17, letter no. 173), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, CC BY-SA 4.0, without the editors' apparatus. [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/1870-06-14%20Marx%20a%20Victor%20Le%20Lubez)*

86, Mornington Street,  
Stockport Road, Manchester  
14 June 1870.

Sir,

Yours d. d. 11 June has been sent [to] me from London.

I want now to be informed by you who is the informer that gave you the *absurd* information that I am the London Corresponent of the “Volksstaat” and the author of an article on your person. Allow me to observe that my time is spent on subjects of a more general interest.

I am  
Sir  
Yours etc  
K. M.