Written on 30 June 1871. Published in The Pall Mall Gazette, 3 July 1871, and in The Eastern Post, No. 145, 8 July 1871. Text of the newspaper, as transcribed by Tony Brown for the Marxists Internet Archive, compared with the German version in Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels, Werke, vol. 17 (Berlin, 1962, p. 380). Traducción al español.
Haverstock-hill, N.W. June 30, 1871
Sir,
I have declared in The Daily News — and you have reprinted in The Pall Mall — that I hold myself alone responsible for the charges brought forward against “Jules Favre and Co..
In your yesterday’s publication you declare these charges to be “libels.” I declare you to be a libeller. It is no fault of mine that you are as ignorant as arrogant. If we lived on the Continent, I should call you to account in another way. —
Obediently,
Karl Marx