Jenny Longuet Papers

Period 1854-1948
Total size  2 microfilms
Consultation Not restricted
User restriction Permission required for publication. Please contact RGASPI (formerly RCChIDNI).

Biography

Marx's eldest daughter Jenny (1844-1883) was married to Charles Longuet (1833-1903); Longuet took part in the Paris Commune in 1871 and was editor of the Journal Officiel de la République Française; their son Jean (1876-1938) was a leading member of the Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière (SFIO).

Content

Jenny Marx: passport and some other personal documents; notes; abstracts; letters by Jenny Marx to Karl Marx, Thomas Allsop, Friedrich Engels, Laura Lafargue, Charles Longuet and other members of the Marx and Longuet family. Charles Longuet: letters by Longuet to Petr Lavrov and members of the Longuet and Marx family; letters to Longuet from Georges Clemenceau. Jean Longuet: letters by Longuet to Georgij Plechanov; letters to Longuet from Henri Barbusse, Eduard Bernstein, Anatole France, James Keir Hardie, Gustave Hervé, Henri van Kol, Romain Rolland, Upton Sinclair, John Spargo, Filippo Turati and others. Robert Longuet: letters to Longuet from Upton Sinclair 1942 and others.

Location of originals

Originals at the RGASPI (Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History), the former RCChIDNI, Moscow, fund 7.

Finding aid

Inventory available in IISH-reading room.