<idno>338</idno>Robert Applegarth an Karl Marx in London. London, Donnerstag, 2. Dezember 1869 Gavrilchenko Svetlana Bearbeitung Gioeva Tatjana Bearbeitung Lindenberg Thomas Bearbeitung Lura Caroline Bearbeitung

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Der Brief besteht aus einem Bogen festem, weißem Papier im Format 256 × 204 mm. Wasserzeichen: „Towgood's / Extra Super“. Applegarth hat zunächst die vierte, erste und zweite Seite vollständig, anschließend die dritte Seite zu drei Vierteln beschrieben. Schreibmaterial: schwarze Tinte.

Gedruckter Briefkopf auf der ersten beschriebenen Seite: „Amalgamated Society of Carpenters & Joiners, / General Office. / 91. Upper (gestrichen; handschriftl. darüber ergänzt: „113“) Stamford Street. Waterloo Road. S. E.“ und darunter Datumszeile „London ____186_“.

Archivsignatur des Moskauer Marx-Engels-Instituts (IMĖ) auf allen beschriebenen Seiten oben links: „Rj 113a–d“ (Bleistift).

Erstveröffentlichung: in russischer Übersetzung: Письма деятелей Международного товарищества рабочих К. Марксу и Ф. Энгельсу (1964). S.105/106. [Новая и новейшая история. 1964. Nr. 6. S. 104–111]. In der Sprache des Originals wird der Brief hier erstmals veröffentlicht. letter Robert Applegarth London Karl Marx London Marx hat den Brief seinem Brief an Engels vom 4. Dezember 1869 beigelegt („Um Dir den einliegenden Brief v. Applegarth zu erklären …“) Internationale Arbeiter-Assoziation (IAA, A.I.T., I.W.M.A.) Landwirtschaft
Amalgamated Society of Carpenters & Joiners, General Office. 91. 113 Upper Stamford Street. Waterloo Road. S. E. London Dec 2nd 1869.My dear Marx

Your note is just to hand.

I have not replied to the enquiries—made as to whether I voted for common property in Land and I dont intend doing so till I hear from you.

I send you a copy of the question put to me.

“Was any resolution passed to which you were, or were not a party, against all private property in land?”

The above is the question & the first words of my reply will be.

“A resolution was passedSiehe Engels an Marx, 1.11.1869. declaring ‘That society has a right to abolish private property in land & to convert it into common property & that there was a necessity for doing so’, and for this resolution I gave my vote most cordially.”

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I then want to say in a few words why Land ought to be made common property.

I would not have troubled you had the question only had reference to some opinion I had expressed apart from the International but as my reply will be placed in the hands of those who would by one means or another have to disgorge their ill gotten acres, if land was made common property and as my vote was given at one of our Congresses I feel I ought to ask the advice of those who understood the question thoroughly before I was born.

I shall therefore wait till I hear from you

I amyours trulyRApplegarth