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56. Heinrich Marx to Marx, MEW, Ergsbd. 1 638.
57. Eleanor Marx, 'Remarks on a letter by the Young Marx', Reminiscences,
p. 256.
58. Marx to A. Ruge, in K. Marx, Early Texts, ed. D. McLellan (Oxford, 1971 )
p. 59 (hereinafter referred to as Early Texts).
59. Marx to Jenny Longuet, MEW xxxv 241 f.
60. E Engels, 'Marx und die Neue Rheinische Zeitung'.
- L. Feuerbach in seinen Briefwechsel und Nachlass, ed. K. Griin (Leipzig, 1876 )
1 183.
- K. Marx, Early Texts, p. 2.
- Ibid.
- Sophie Marx to Karl Marx, MEGA 1 i (2) 211.
- Laura Lafargue to Franz Mehring, in F. Mehring, A us dem literarischen Nach-
lass von K. Marx, F. Engels, F. Lassalle (Stuttgart, 1902 ) 1 25.
- F. Mehring, op. cit., 1 26.
- Ibid.
- Early Texts, pp. 2 f.
- Heinrich Marx to Karl Marx, MEGA 1 i (2) 204.
70. MEGA 1 i (2) 50.
71. See M. Rubel, 'Les Cahiers d'etudes de Karl Marx (1840-1853)', International
Review of Social History (1957).
72. There is a translation in The Unknown Marx, ed. R. Payne (London, 1972).
73. MEGA 1 i (2) 41.
74. Ibid 42.
75. Ibid.
76. This is the interpretation of, for example, W. Johnston, 'Marx's verses of
1836-7', Journal of the History of Ideas (April 1967 ) p. 261 ; also of E. Kamenka,
The Ethical Foundations of Marxism (London, 1962 ) p. 20 , and of S. Avineri,
The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx (Cambridge, 1968 ) p. 8.
77. For a lengthier discussion of Marx's poems than, perhaps, they merit, see A.
Cornu, Karl Marx et Friedrich Engels (Paris, 1955 ) pp. 74 ff.; R. Payne, Marx
(London, 1968 ) pp. 59 ff.; P. Demetz, Marx, Engels and the Poets (Chicago,
1967 ) pp. 47 ff. These essentially immature literary efforts should not be
taken as evidence of Marx's capacities in this field; on the contrary remarks
scattered throughout his later writings show that he had the ability to be a
first-class literary critic.
78. Heinrich Marx to Marx, MEW, Ergsbd. 1 624.
79. Ibid., 632.
80. Jenny von Westphalen to Marx, quoted in L. Dornemann, Jenny Marx
(Berlin, 1969 ) p. 41.
81. Heinrich Marx to Marx, MEGA 1 i (2) 198.
Hi. Early Texts, p. 3.
