Pegwell BayRamsgate28th June 1871Dr Karl Marx,

Dear Sir,

Altho’ unknown to you farther than having met you with my very good Friend and co-adjutor Dr Simon Bernard I am induced to address you with respect to the late manifesto of the International Society with which I fully approve and sympathize.

But it is not merely to express my coincidence of opinion but to confirm what you state as to the Stock Jobbery propensities of Mr. Thiers.

In the year 1840 in which your Thiers was the Foreign Minister in France, there was some talk of war and at that time Thiers sold very heavily in the English Stock Exchange.

Whether this became known to Louis Philippe, as has been surmized or not, it is certain that Louis Philippe decided on peace and that he was superseded by Guizot so suddenly that he sustained a very heavy loss.

Whether he created this critical condition to enable him to profit thereby, or whether it having occured of necessity, he sought to profit by it, can never be known; but that he, the Minister of Louis Philippe, entered into a vast speculation is certain.

Whether or not Thiers failed to pay his differences, I cannot say, but as the matter became public it seems probable.

I am very rarely in London or I would be much pleased to see you in person if I knew where & at what time I could find you in London. With entire sympathy I am Faithfully & Fraternally

Thos. Allsop.

Should you wish any further particulars as to Thiers’ stock jobbery practices I may perhaps be able to obtain them.

I see with much regret that Mr Lucraft has seceded from the International. I hope that the statement somewhat officiously tendered by an Anglican Priest in this day’s Daily News that George Odger has taken fright, is not true. If that is so it only proves that there are men otherwise estimable who fear to face obloquy—are unable to stand, alone.

But I think better of Odger—he has not been placed on a platform with Peers, Priests and Profit mongers; he would have seceded quietly and not sought to injure those with whom he could not agree.