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Title: Marx to Richard Josiah Hinton, [Brighton, about 25 August 1871] (extract)
Description: Extract published in the New York press: the International, short of money after the Commune, is flooded with letters from all over England, forms Irish sections and aids the Commune refugees.
Author: Karl Marx
Date: 1871-08-25
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/originales/1871-08-25%20Marx%20to%20Richard%20Josiah%20Hinton
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*Extract from a letter from Karl Marx to Richard Josiah Hinton, written in Brighton about 25 August 1871. The original is lost; the text is that printed in The World (New York), no. 3687, 21 September 1871, p. 2. According to the MEGA editors, the attribution to Marx, the addressee and the date come from the second Russian edition of the works of Marx and Engels and cannot be confirmed with certainty. Text of the print in The World (New York), no. 3687, 21 September 1871, p. 2, [MEGAdigital](https://megadigital.bbaw.de/briefe/detail.xql?id=M4314910) (MEGA² III/18, letter no. 441), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, CC BY-SA 4.0, without the editors’ apparatus. [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/1871-08-25%20Marx%20a%20Richard%20Josiah%20Hinton)*

We are greatly in want of money. … The affair of the Commune increased our duties and obligations, while with the war preceding it cut off our Continental supplies. We are now almost overwhelmed with letters from different parts of this country (England), from people wanting information about the International, and sections are being established in the provinces. There are also Irish sections in the course of formation, and we now have an Irish secretary on the Council in the person of MacDonald, of Fenian notoriety. Besides that, we have had applications from the East Indies and New Zealand. The Paris Federal Council is to be reorganized. After all Thiers has caught but very few of our men. There is not a prominent member of our association amongst all his prisoners, and there are but two or three missing, who must have been killed in the last days of fighting, as we cannot get either tale or tidings of them. Many who were reported over and over again as shot, even detailed accounts given, have turned up again, and are now safely here or in Switzerland. There is great distress among the refugees here, and between fifty and sixty are without the means of subsistence. Money comes in very slowly. There is to be an appeal issued to your working-men which we trust will be liberally responded to.