[Ramsgate,] 30 August 1880 

Dear Sorge, 

I am writing from Ramsgate, where I now am with my wife *°; be- 
fore that I took her up to Manchester for a consultation with my 
friend Dr Gumpert. She is suffering from a dangerous liver complaint. 

In consequence of our wanderings I only got your letter very be- 
latedly. I am entirely of your opinion. If you can’t get hold of any 
money—i.e. $200—in Yankeeland, the matter will have to be 
dropped. What the position is here will be evident to you if only 
from the fact that the Egalité went under for want of 3,000 francs. 
I will, for form’s sake, let Liebknecht know about the affair. 

The article from The Sun received with many thanks.*? Though he 

* See present edition, Vol. 45, p. 443. 

may have the best of intentions, the man nevertheless shows that he 
doesn’t understand the first rudiments of the matter about which he 
writes. 

De minimis non curat lex, and among those minima I number, inter 
alia, the priestly Douai. 

With warmest regards, 

Your 
Karl Marx