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Title: To the Editor of The Standard (1871)
Description: Marx denounces as a forgery a letter dated from Berlin and attributed to him by the Gazette de France.
Author: Karl Marx
Date: 1871-07-13
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/originales/1871%20To%20the%20Editor%20of%20The%20Standard
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*Written on 13 July 1871. Published in* The Standard*, 17 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. 389). [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/1871%20Al%20redactor%20de%20The%20Standard).*

Sir,

In this morning’s *Standard* your Paris correspondent translates from the *Gazette de France* a letter dated Berlin, April 28, 1871, and purporting to be signed by me. I beg to state that this letter is from beginning to end a forgery, quite as much as all the previous pretended letters of mine lately published in the *Paris-journal* and other French police papers. If the *Gazette de France* professes to have taken the letter from German papers, this must be a falsehood too. A German paper would never have dated that fabrication from Berlin.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

Karl Marx

London, July 13