{London,] 26 April 1853 

Dear Frederic, 

I fear that nothing will come of my proposed trip.* Bamberger 
cannot discount the bill for me and Friedlander, who _ half- 
promised to do so, has now definitely refused. I have written to 
Strohn about it”? but look on this as a mere formality which I 
complied with pour acquit de conscience’ and for my wife’s sake, 
without expecting anything to come of it. 

A paper of mine for the Tribune (which included the first 
Turkish article)“ about Mazzini’s presence here—again denied by 
his friends but on his orders, I think—was made the basis for a 
short Leader on Mazzini’s lucky escape, followed by the comment: 

* ‘In this connection we may properly pay a tribute to the remarkable ability of 
the correspondent by whom this interesting piece of intelligence is furnished. Mr 
’ Marx has very decided opinions of his own, with some of which we are far from 

agreeing, but those who do not read his letters neglect one of the most instructive 
sources of information on the great questions of current European politics.’ *4 

As you see, I am firmly in the saddle. I have in addition had a 
most interesting letter from Cluss with 2 issues containing Hirsch’s 
confessions © (not yet concluded). I’m not sending the stuff yet since 
there’s still a chance that something might happen to enable me to 
come myself and bring the things with me. Anyhow, I won’t come 
without notifying you beforehand. When is your old man arriving? 
I’d rather not cannon into him. 

If only Dana would advise me of a business house here, as I 
have asked him three times to do, I should at least be over the 
worst. 

Ad vocem‘ Hirsch: Originally I was of the same opinion as 
yourself, but the matter is somewhat different. Stieber and 
Goldheim are definitely here, their purpose being to ‘link’ 

4 See this volume, pp. 303 and 314. - > to salve my conscience - © K. Marx and 
F. Engels, ‘British Politics —Disraeli—The Refugees.—Mazzini in London.— 
Turkey’. - 4 New-York Daily Tribune, No. 3736, 7 April 1853. - © W. Hirsch, ‘Die 
Opfer der Moucharderie. Rechtfertigungsschrift’, Belletristisches Journal und New- 
Yorker Criminal-Zeitung, presumably Nos. 3 and 4, 1 and 8 April 1853. - f re - 
& See this volume, pp. 301-02. 

Kossuth’s gunpowder plot with Berlin.“°. The same fellow who 
wrote me the anonymous scrawl,* wrote on the same day to 
Scharttner and Goéhringer word-for-word as follows: 

‘London, 21.4.53 
Announcement 

Recent arrivals: Police Commissioner Stieber and the Jew Goldheim, a police 
lieutenant, both of Berlin (P.T.O.) 

Description 
Stieber the Jew Goldheim 
Medium height (about 5) about 6' 
Hair: black; short black, short 
Moustache: ditto, ditto ditto, ditto 
Complexion: sallow and muddy sallow, puffy features 

Wears dark, narrow trousers, a blue Wears black trousers, a light yellow 
sack, a collapsible stuff hat, and sack, black hat. 
spectacles. 

N.B. Both of them regularly go about together and are accompanied by Hirsch, 
a commercial assistant from Hamburg, and Haering, a postal clerk from Willich’s 
birth-place. Today Stieber and Goldheim had a meeting with Bangya. Stieber and 
Goldheim visit the Prussian Embassy regularly every day between 11 and 3.’ 

I believe the author to be Henry de L’Aspée, friend and 
compatriot of O. Dietz, that same aggrieved policeman who, you 
will recall, was to have [a meeting] with us after your arrival here 
for the purpose of making further revelations. You can see what 
headway ‘Hirsch’ is making. Nothing could be more inopportune 
for Willich-Kinkel. 

FAREWELL, 

Your 
K. M. 

As to the pound,” I shall give them each 10/-, since so far as I 
know there’s some prospect of Pieper’s getting his money without 
a lawsuit. The poor devil is hellish syphilitic and at the same time 
in rotten circumstances and too featherbrained to look after himself.