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Letter to Collet Dobson Collet, after June 10, 18571

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written June 1857


Published in English in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 40

MARX TO COLLET DOBSON COLLET[1]

IN LONDON

[Draft] [London, after 10 June 1857]

Dear Sir,

Having myself not made up, but only copied the account forwarded to you, I felt, on receiving your note, very anxious, indeed, lest my claims should have been overstated. Consequently,

I reexamined the reckonings. The case is simply this, that you make 222/3 columns, that you have omitted No. 34,[2] and that the only mistake on my part consists in having put down 4 columns for No. 34, which really amounts to 51/2 columns.

Yours truly

K. Marx

D. Collet, Esq.

  1. ↑ The draft letter is not dated. It was written in reply to Collet's letter to Marx of 10 June, presumably immediately after it was received.—138
  2. ↑ Issue No. 34 of The Free Press, 1 April 1857, containing a section of Marx's Revelations of the Diplomatic History of the 18th Century.