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Title: Letter to Frederick Greenwood, the Editor of The Pall Mall Gazette (1871)
Description: Marx’s curt reply to the editor of The Pall Mall Gazette, who had called his charges against Jules Favre libels: “I declare you to be a libeller.”
Author: Karl Marx
Date: 1871-06-30
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/originales/1871%20Letter%20to%20Frederick%20Greenwood%2C%20the%20Editor%20of%20The%20Pall%20Mall%20Gazette
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*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](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/1871%20Carta%20a%20Frederick%20Greenwood%2C%20redactor%20de%20The%20Pall%20Mall%20Gazette).*

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