[London,] 27 August 1852 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Imandt, 

2 truly memorable memoranda!'” If that’s not champion 
drivel* ... or however the saying goes. 

However, in your place I would reply to the lads’: 

At your guarantors’ meeting you nominated a committee 
(provisional), consisting of Reichenbach, Lowe and Schurz, to 
settle matters. You were to await that committee’s report. Kinkel 
and Willich were in no way empowered either to ask questions or 
to receive answers. Their threat that anyone in Europe failing to 
answer by 1 September (extremely short notice) would be held to 
be in agreement with them, is merely an attempt by them and Co., 
after their failure at the meeting, to take over the administration of 
the funds by stealth. You should protest against this procedure and 
say you will, if necessary, publish your protest with your full 
reasons for it. 

At the same time I would write to Reichenbach: 

Repeat the foregoing and declare that he must see to it that not 
a centime is paid out until the committee nominated by yourselves has 
submitted its report. Draw his attention to a few of the chief points 
of the document, but more especially to the following: 

‘In order that we may make use of the funds if need arise, we propose that the 
guarantors in America accord us with the utmost dispatch the right to co-opt a 

third colleague. In which case we should elect either Goegg or some other local 
member of the Revolutionary League, etc.’ 200 

Ie. what the gentlemen have in mind is to get the money out of 
Reichenbach’s hands ‘with the utmost dispatch’ because great ‘need 
has now arisen’ for Willich and Co. to ‘make use of the funds’. 

You could slip into both these letters a few jokes about the 
‘treaty of union’.” 

a Marx uses the German saying: ‘Wenn das nicht gut flr die Wanzen ist,so wei 
ich nicht, was besser ist.’ - > See this volume, p. 166. 

Return me the documents as soon as possible, so that I can send 
reports to Germany and America (for which the next post leaves 
on Tuesday“) ‘with the utmost dispatch’, 

Salut. 
Your 
K. M.