Manchester, 11 June 1852
70 Great Ducie Street

Dear Heart, i

I was very pleased to get your letter. By the way, you must
never have any qualms about telling me all. If you, my poor little
wretch, have to endure bitter reality, it is only fair that I should
share that torment, at least in my thoughts. In any case, I know
how unendingly resilient you are and how the slightest encourage-
ment is enough to revive your spirits. [ hope that the other £5 will
reach you this week or on Monday at the latest.

I did of course pack the Schnellpost. But I haven’t got the back
numbers in which Ruge deposited the better part of his ordure.
The process of curing these stock-fish makes us laugh till we cry.

Though Oswald’s package won’t yield very much, something
may be made of it. Our dear A. Ruge is incapable of writing 3
lines without compromising himself. ‘Moute’? has already been
corrected by me, unless I am mistaken.

The printer in the City seems to be a lesser lumen‘ who, not
having a superfluity of underlings, will certainly require an

4 Marx refers here to his and Engels’ work on The Great Men of the Exile. - > The
misprint which cropped in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, VII
published in Die Revolution, should read: Toute. - luminary

unconscionable time to do one sheet. His paper is 3 x worse than
the American, and his type likewise, this being clearly quite worn
out. But you have managed the business splendidly.

Harro’s pamphletis truly touching in the naivety of its
stupidity! Be so kind as to cut Engels’ article on Heinzen out of the
Brisseler-Zeitung” and send it to us,—and that very soon. If the
Kosmos doesn’t arrive, no matter. We have a letter of mine up
here which contains the gist of the thing.'Love and kisses to my manikins.
Your
K. M.

Engels has further pointed out that whereas, throughout the
pamphlet, I always deliberately write ‘Louis Bonaparte’, Mr

Weydemeyer has entitled it ‘Louis Napoleon’.'Dear Jenny, be so kind as to tell Eccarius that he should write a
short postscript to his ‘Mechanics’ Strike’,“since Weydemeyer is
‘considering’ publishing it. We should agree to this, if only on
Cluss’ account.

Dear Heart, send Jones the 2 enclosed pieces, ‘Chevalier
Hiilsemann’s Farewell and ‘John Barney and the French Minister“’,
together with the short cutting about ‘Cayenne’—preferably by
post, unless he comes to see you.'” I beg you not to bother Mr
Pieper with such errands. To him, everything provides occasion
for rodomontade and I don’t want Jones—who, by the way, was
responsible for making him so uppish—to regard him as my alter
ego. Since Pieper believes the letters are written for ‘the party’, he
must not henceforward set eyes on any more of them.

[From Engels]

Prego il Signor Colonello Musch di gradire le mie migliort e piu cordial
felicitazionis

F. Engels

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