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Title: To the Editor of The Morning Advertiser (1871)
Description: Marx denounces as forgeries the phrases attributed to him by the Paris police and quoted by The Morning Advertiser.
Author: Karl Marx
Date: 1871-07-11
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/originales/1871%20To%20the%20Editor%20of%20The%20Morning%20Advertiser
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*Written on 11 July 1871. Published in* The Morning Advertiser*, 13 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. 388). One transcription error corrected. [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/1871%20Al%20redactor%20de%20The%20Morning%20Advertiser).*

Sir,

In one of your leading articles of to-day you quote a string of phrases, such as, “London, Liverpool, and Manchester in revolt against odious capital,” etc., with the authorship of which you are kind enough to credit me.

Permit me to state that the whole of the quotations upon which you base your article are forgeries from beginning to end. You have probably been misled by some of the fabrications which the Paris police are in the habit of issuing almost daily in my name, in order to procure evidence against the captive “Internationals” at Versailles.

I am, Sir, yours, etc.,

Karl Marx

1, Modena-villas, Maitland Park, Haverstock-hill, N.W.,  
July 11, 1871