[London,} 18 August 1858 

Dear Engels, 

If at all possible, let me have 1 arricte on India or Cherbourg by 
Friday.** It’s absolutely impossible for me to carry on any longer 
without an entremets of this kind. You will understand how bereft 
of material I am when I tell you that yesterday I wrote (via 
Ramsgate; where the fair copy was made?) about the stave-rrape in 
Cuba.*”° On the other hand, it is now more than ever essential that 
I should jack up my credit a little. 
Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 

Apropos. I inserted—not directly, but through a channel viz. 
that of Liebknecht, who himself made use of yet another 
channel—Kinkel’s advertisement of a trip to the Lakes in the 

a Poor devil - > Jenny Marx, who usually made the fair copies of Marx’s articles for 
the New-York Daily Tribune, was in Ramsgate .at the time. 

Neue Zeit (a German rag in London).* The thing caused a scandal. 
Kinkel now denies it. Important you should write to me about it.