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Title: Marx to Collet Dobson Collet, [London,] 6 September 1871
Description: Draft of Marx’s answer to Collet: no English review of Capital exists; the only manifestoes of the General Council are those on the war and on the Civil War in France, the others are forgeries.
Author: Karl Marx
Date: 1871-09-06
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/originales/1871-09-06%20Marx%20to%20Collet%20Dobson%20Collet
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*Karl Marx to Collet Dobson Collet in London; [London,] 6 September 1871. Written in English. Text after the manuscript (draft), [MEGAdigital](https://megadigital.bbaw.de/briefe/detail.xql?id=M2163053) (MEGA², Section III, letters of 1871, no. 477), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, CC BY-SA 4.0, without the editors’ apparatus. Underlining in italics; deletions omitted; editorial additions in square brackets; […] illegible word(s). [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/1871-09-06%20Marx%20a%20Collet%20Dobson%20Collet)*

6. Sept. ’71.

Dear Sir,

From your letter I see that you are not only “alarmed”, but have also grown suspicious, since you tuned down your “My dear Sir” to “Dear Sir”.

For my own part I consider the feeling of “alarm” not one peculiarly adapted to lend a scientific and objective *point de vue* .

I regret not being able to fulfil your wish. I have gone through the whole round of my Continental friends but found no one in possession of some of the numerous reviews and extracts of my book that have appered in Italian and French. The French edition *in extenso* has been cut short by the Prussian war. Neither translation nor review has appered in English. Two years since my friend F. Engels sent a very accuarate analysis of “Das Kapital” to the Fortnightly, but it was returned with the remark that “it was too scientific for the English Review-reader”.

I do not know of what manifestoes you speak. Save the address on “the Civil War in France” and Mr. Washburne, which I had the honour to send you, the general Council has, since September 1870, published no manifesto except those on the Franco-Prussian war which I hereby forward . Apart [from] the manifestoes, published by the French and Prussian Police in the name of the *International*, and which I have declared to be forgeries in “La Vérité” (*Paris*), no manifesto has besides [been] published in the latter times. The so[-]called *swiss* manifesto , printed in the *Times*, is, as the *Examiner* of last Saturday justly remarked, “a garbled translation of a French version, itself far from accurate ... It issues, not from the Int Ws Ass, but from some of its Swiss members”.

Yours faithfully

K. M.