[London,] 2 September 1852 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Engels, 

From the enclosed pissabed letter from the great Weydemeyer, 
you will see how matters stand. With it the brute sent 10 copies. 

I have not yet had an answer from Mr F. Streit,” ce qui est de trés 
mauvais augure. There is now some, if little, prospect of its being 
am to give him the first chapter by way of a sample. I have 
therefore had it translated by Pieper. The translation is swarming 
with mistakes and omissions. However, its correction will not be 
such an imposition on you as the boring task of translation.’ I 
would like you to write an English preface of not more than 10 
lines, saying that this paper originally appeared in the form of 
newspaper articles between the end of December and_ the 
beginning of February, that it was published as a pamphlet in New 
York on 1 May, that a 2nd edition is now to appear in Germany,” 
and that it was the first anti-Bonaparte paper to appear; the few 
details no longer of relevance may be accounted for by its date of 
origin. 

E. Jones is a thoroughly egotistical rascal. For 2 months he has 
been dangling before me the promise that he will do a translation 
(for his journal’). For my part, I have done him nothing but 
favours. In spite of my own money bothers I have spent days with 
him traipsing all over the place in connection with his paper’s 
financial affairs. All the foreign intelligence exclusive to his pauvre' 
little paper came from me. Whenever he got into a scrape with his 
committees,'” opponents, etc., he came running to me, and my 
advice invariably got him out of it. Finally, when his journal 
became altogether too deplorable, I gave him my eprroriat support 
for several weeks, and indeed the wretched thing gained some 
100 additional subscribers in London. 

aK. Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.- > See this volume, 
p. 161. -¢ which is a very bad sign - 4 See this volume, p. 179. - © The People’s 
Paper - £ wretched