| 12 July, 1871.
1, Modena Villas,
Maitland Park,
Haverstock Hill, N.W.
Sir,
I send you together with these lines the following publications of the General Council of the “International”:
- 1) “Inaugural Address and Provisional Rules”.
- 2) “Rules of the Intern. Workingmen’s Association” as definitively accepted by the Geneva Congress of 1866.
- 3) “Resolutions of the Congress of Geneva, 1866, and the Congress of Brussels, 1868.”
- 4) “Report of the General Council to the Brussels Congress” (Times, 9 September 1868)
- 5) “The Belgian massacres”.
- 6) “Address to the National Labour Union of the United States”.
- 7) “Report of the Fourth Annual Congress, held at Basle 1869.” |
- 8) “Irish Amnesty.”
- 9) “Lock-out of the Building Trades at Geneva”.
- 10) “Programme of the Fifth Annual Congress”.
- N.B. The meeting of this Congress was prevented by the Franco-Prussian War.
- 11) Two Addresses on the Franco-Prussian War.
- 12) Address on the “Civil War in France”.
- 13) I enclose a written copy of the “Address to Abraham Lincoln” and his reply.
This list, though not complete, contains the most important documents published by the General Council.
An Address to the American Committee of the “International”—which is just printing—I shall forward you to-morrow.
Yours trulyKarl Marx
A. O. Rutson, Esq.
Zeugenbeschreibung und Überlieferung
Zeugenbeschreibung
Soweit aus der Fotokopie zu ersehen ist, besteht der Brief aus einem Bogen weißem Papier. Marx hat die ersten zwei Seiten vollständig beschrieben, die übrigen zwei Seiten sind leer. Schreibmaterial: schwarze Tinte.
Drucke
Anmerkungen zum Brief
Dem Brief ging ein Entwurf voraus, begonnen am 10. Juli 1871 (siehe Digitalisat).
Zitiervorschlag
Karl Marx an Albert O. Rutson in London. London, Mittwoch, 12. Juli 1871. In: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe digital, hg. v. der Internationalen Marx-Engels-Stiftung. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin. URL: https://megadigital.bbaw.de/M6904450. Abgerufen am 11.08.2026.