MARX TO ENGELS 
IN MANCHESTER 

{London,] 6 January 1859* 
Dear Engels, 

Will you be so good as to send me Lupus’ address. 

If you have done with Serbia,*” there is fresh material READY to 
hand in the (proposed) changes in the Landwehr in Prussia, on 
which I shall have to report.’ Today’s Times contains a detailed 
account dated Vienna of the latest brouhaha in Serbia.” 

While Mr Edgar Bauer is editor under Tue auspices of Scherzer 
and is even adopting ‘class contradictions’ and giving them a 
Berlin twist, Mr Gottfried Kinkel, who can’t afford to let slip the 
Opportunity presented by the Kinkel revivat, is bringing out a 
weekly in London, to wit, the Hermann (not the Cheruscan, I 
presume, but Goethe’s simpteron).*” Freiligrath, or so it seems from 
a brief note he sent me, is already repenrant of the BLUNDER? he 
committed. If you write, tell him (but most politely, or course, for he 
complains about the crude, brash tone of your letters) that in 
Manchester there is much talk among the Germans about his 
alliance with Kinkel; you might also slip in Heckscher’s anecdote, 
quoting your source. At this particular time it is of moment to us 
that Freiligrath should break with these swine for good. 

Apropos, Willich is now editing the gymnasts’ paper in 
Cincinnati. Was ‘selected’ as editor there. He accepted the 
appointment (doubtless obtained for him by Cluss so as to rid 
himself of the man) in a superb circular letter in which he says 

a 1858 in the original - > ‘The Revolution in Servia’, The Times, No. 23196, 
6 January 1859.-¢ of Die Neue Zeit-4 See this volume, pp. 359-60. - © Die 
Turn-Zeitung 

that the time has come for him to take charge of propaganda since 
the people are not in need of military leaders just now. 
Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 

First published abridged in Der Briefwech- Printed according to the original 
sel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 2, : 2 . . 
Stuttgart, 1913 and in full in: Marx and Published in English for the first 
Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, ume 

Vol. XXII, Moscow, 1929 

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