On 26th November 1867, Marx was to give a talk to the First International meeting but due to ill health he did not talk on the Irish Question. However, he wrote a small outline for this meeting (6 printed pages) which this is a reproduction.
Although short and much of it written in note form, it does highlight his use of a dialectical method of investigation especially by his utilisation of the concepts of process and system and how those entities change over time.