{London,] 25 September 1860 

Dear Engels, 

The family arrived back safely yesterday. 

With regard to the enclosed letter from Dana I should explain 
that, after your visit to London,’ I wrote to Dana saying I 
would rather he assigned the ‘Navy’ article to some other 
contributor to the Cyclopaedia?'* After that, I didn’t hear from him 
and thought the matter had been prorrep until the enclosed letter 
turned up yesterday. If you could possibly do the thing—however 
briefly and superficially pors Nor Marrer—it would be of enormous 
help to me, particularly just now, since, to obtain a breathing-space, 
I was forced on 14 September to draw an anticipatory bill on Dana, 
having a life of 2 months (payable 2 months after date). When 
writing to him, I reminded him of our long-standing friendship, as 
this was, in fact, against the rrincirizs of the Tribune. However, my 
letter crossed his, so just now it behoves us to keep him happy, quite 
apart from the necessity of his continuing to believe that we can do 
everything. So, if it is at all possible, you would oblige me more than I 
can say by doing the thing. Ten pages was the maximum prescribed 
by Dana. Fire po arso,* if not otherwise feasible. The point is that 
something should go off. 

How wirn Lamoriciére?? 

What do you think of the Garibaldi situation? 

Kossuth was balked by Mazzini’s intervention; he had been sent 
by Bonaparte. Garibaldi was to have by-passed Rome and marched 
on Venice direct.*’° 

Now, ad vocem‘ Vogt. 

The thing’s* being printed here. 

1. Money. All I have to pay is £25. £12 from Borkheim, Lassalle 
has promised me £8. There remains £5. The other printing costs, 
ditto distribution costs will be met by Petsch, the publisher. We are 
SHARERS TO EQUAL PARTS in the profits, after deduction and refund of 

* Five will also do - & See this volume, p. 195. - “as regards - ¢K. Marx, Herr Vogt. 

the costs. I told Petsch this was now the only condition upon which 
I would have the thing published in London. 

2. The thing is not confiscable. This was a misapprehension on 
Lassalle’s part. I had told him, on the contrary, that, though not 
confiscable, it could not appear in Berlin because no publisher 
there would print it because of the communist trial.** 

3. We are no longer in the 1850-58 era. Petsch has his agents in 
Leipzig, Berlin, and Hamburg. So, the thing will be distributed 
through ordinary booksellers’ channels in Germany. In Belgium, 
Switzerland, and America, Petsch will sell direct through his agents 
there, thus saving a great deal of time. Advertisements in the 
newspapers, booksellers’ notices, etc., will be attended to here, with 
my assistance. We shall send Siebel 50 copies to be distributed to 
journals, etc. Confiscation I hold to be out of the question. Vogt is not 
the Prince Regent,* and Stieber has officially fallen into disgrace. I 
am deliberately keeping myself en réserve where politics are 
concerned. 

4. We are saving time, for in Germany we might spend months 
yet doing the rounds; also time on proof-correcting, etc. It is 
‘Petsch’s first publication (along with an anti-About pamphlet of 
Borkheim’s”), and he will go to no end of pains, if only in his own 
interests. 

5. If the thing goes well, as I have every reason to suppose, Petsch 
will publish pamphlets, whether by you or me, in German or English 
and put an end to surxinc by German publishers. (2 sheets already 
printed.) 

On this occasion, therefore, necessity would appear to have been 
a-virtue. Qu’en pensez-vous?* I believe that Po and Rhine" ditto 
Savoy, etc., would have created much more of a stir had they 
come out here in London. 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 

Apropos. You rightly considered Ex-Reichs-Vogt an unsuitable 
title. Karl Vogt seems unsuitable to me because I don’t want to put 
‘Karl Marx’ after Karl Vogt. Hence my proposed title, Da-Dd-Vogt. 
For, as I reveal in the section containing the critique of Vogt’s 

4 William, Prince of Prussia - » [S. L. Borkheim,] Napoleon LI und Preussen, 
London, 1860. - © What do you think? - 4 F. Engels, Po and Rhine. - © F. Engels, 
Savoy, Nice and the Rhine. 

Studien, Da-Da is an Arab writer who is made use of by 
Bonaparte in Algiers as Vogt is in Geneva. Da-Da will puzzte your 
philistine, and it’s funny.