[Manchester,] Monday, 10 March 1851 

D. M., 

This morning I received the enclosed letter from Weerth and 
am at once sending it on to you. So the business between 
Schramm * and Harney is now settled. If you can inveigle that idle 
fellow into doing it, get him to send Harney a copy of the 
translation of Blanqui’s toast; cela fera son effet.’ It would be an 
altogether good idea if, now that he is again on the best of terms 
with Harney, he was to maintain the connection—after ll, 
Harney has a paper. A copy of the article that was sent to The 
Times" might also be sent to Blanqui in Belle-Isle. Schramm 

a philistines - > probably Marx’s uncle Lion Philips of Zalt-Bommel - ¢ desperate 
act - 4 Hermann Becker; see this volume, pp. 273, 282, 308. - ¢ Conrad Schramm - 
f it will have its effect (the reference is to the English translation of L. A. Blanqui’s 
toast ‘Avies ou people’) - 8 The Friend of the People - > F. Engels, ‘To the Editor of The 
Times’ (with an English translation of L. A. Blanqui’s toast). 

shouldn’t be too lackadaisical in this matter—for he would thereby 
secure his rear in various directions. Money tomorrow. 

Your 
F. E. 

Barthélemy has made a prize ass of himself—that’s one 
consolation. 

Tell Schramm to put the whole story down on paper for 
Harney. Then we shall have civen notice, and that’s always 
something that may later carry weight.