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A Private Letter to British Crown Princess Victoria
About Meeting Karl Marx
by
Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff
Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, the eldest daughter of the British monarch and wife of the Prussian Crown Prince (and future German emperor, Frederick III), expressed to British politician Duff an interest in this Dr. Marx she was hearing so much about.
Duff managed to meet with Marx at the Devonshire Club on January 31 1879. He immediately wrote to the princess the next day. Duff included parts of this letter in his memoires (Notes from a Diary, 1873-1881), but removed all reference to the recipient.
The letter was published in full for the first time in The Times Literary Supplement, July 15 1949 -- "A Meeting with Karl Marx", by A. Rothstein. Transcribed for the Internet on Jan 18 1996 by Zodiac. Html markup in 1999 by Brian Baggins
February 1, 1879
Madam,
Your Imperial Highness, when I last had the honour of seeing you, chanced to express some curiosity about Carl Marx and to ask me if I knew him. I resolved accordingly to take the first opportunity of making his acquaintance; but that opportunity did not arise till yesterday when I met him at luncheon and spent three hours in his company.
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Karl Marx
A Life
By FRANCIS WHEEN
W. W. Norton & Company
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