London, 16 November 1852 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Engels, 

If you can, do a Tribune article on the Cologne affair* for 
Friday. You are now as familiar with all the material as myself 
and, for the past 4-5 weeks I have so neglected my domestic 
pother for the sake of rustic susiness that, with the best will in the 
world, I shall not be able to get down to work this week. 

You haven’t told me whether you received the Reichenbach 
circular sent off to you last week. 

This evening we are to discuss a statement for the English Press 
on the Cologne affair.> There will hardly be time to send it for 
you to see beforehand. However, if you could do one to reach me 
by Thursday morning, that would be even better. 

Regards to Weerth. 

Your 

At the Ruge meeting’” on the 9th, messages were received 

from Kossuth-Mazzini pleading sickness. However, on the 10th 
they put in an appearance at the ‘Friends of Italy’.°"' Ledru did 
not make his excuses at all. 

Briefwechsel ischen F. Engels und ; . 

K ian Bd. 1 Stutigare 194 and iq Published in English for the first 
full in MEGA, Abt. III, Bd. 1, Berlin, mine 

1929 

a F. Engels, ‘The Late Trial at Cologne’. - > K. Marx and F. Engels, ‘A Final 
Declaration on the Late Cologne Trials’. -¢ 18 November