[Manchester, 11 March 1853] 

Dear Marx, 

You shall have the articles within a few days*; I see that my 
CONSIDERATION Of Urquhart” was opportune. Unfortunately it’s too 
late for tomorrow’s steamer, since I can hardly have finished at the 
office before 8 o’clock and some preparation is, of course, still 
necessary. It’s grand that pére Dana is now paying £2 and 
promptly honouring bills; avec ¢a,° we shall at last be out of the 
wood. Incidentally, I would never have believed that you had sent 
off seven English articles in such a short space of time“; when you 
come up here, which I much look forward to, you will learn more 
English in a week than in 6 weeks with Mr Pieper. 

As for Monsieur Jacques, it is more than likely that the little 
man wants to imitate the trick played on the Baden government 
by Mr Jenni (whom he greatly resembles), namely sell part of the 
edition’ to the German governments, and afterwards do business 
so much the better with what is left. I don’t believe he is so bad as 
to have sold the whole lot outright. Booksellers established in 
Basle may be justified in feeling nervous; the Basle government 
won't stand any nonsense and is on neighbourly terms with Baden. 
But mind you insist on his sending you forthwith per messagerie, 
i. e. by train, a packet of at least a few copies addressed direct to 
London or, if you like, to me, care or Ermen & Engels, 
Manchester. Nobody would think of opening such a packet, and 
even were this to happen, the cat is in any case already out of the 
bag. It’s fishy that he should so far have refused to let a single copy 
out of his hands. Surely he must know some manufacturer in 
Basle who sends ribbons, etc., etc., to London, and could include 
some in a consignment. 

There’s nothing more to the Lancashire story in The Morning 
Post than what I told you in my yesterday’s letter.* In answer to an 
inquiry of ours about prices, Houldsworth and Murray, the two 

a See this volume, pp. 288-89. - » ibid., pp. 284-85. - ¢ with that -4 See this 
volume, p. 288. - € Schabelitz (ibid., pp. 287-88). - £ K. Marx, Revelations Concern- 
ing .the Communist Trial in Cologne. - 8 Engels to Marx, 10 March 1853, see this 
volume, p. 286. 

leading fine spinners in England, told us yesterday that it was 
useless to quote any prices since they were booked up a long way 
ahead and could not accept a single new order. Between them 
these two have about 150,000-200,000 mule spindles in operation. 
In coarse water-Twist, on the other hand, No. 6/16, business is very 
slack precisely because of conditions in domestics which are sticking 
not only here but also in America and Germany. 

We must destroy the competing Yankee* with a great show of 
omniscience. I shall take a look at a few more books on Turkey of 
which there are quite a cor in the Athenaeum.”* 

It is not very pleasant to hear about the pecune of our friends. 
Nor will it be pleasant if these citoyens’ go into the next affair as 
wise as, but no wiser than, they emerged from the last one, though 
when it comes to the point, the ‘best’ of them will no doubt pull 
themselves together. After Cluss, Lassalle is by far the most useful 
of the lot, and will be all the more so from the moment ou les biens 
du comte Hatzfeldt seront irrévocablement réunis au domaine public<*”* 
He may have his foibles, but he also has esprit de parti et ambition,* 
and we are already aware that he will always make official business 
a pretext for indulging his lesser appetites and pursuing his own 
little private affairs. As for recruiting, that’s the way it is; once we 
are back in Germany we shall, I think, find plenty of talented 
young fellows who have, in the meantime, and not without result, 
tasted the forbidden fruit. If we had had the means to conduct 
propaganda scientifically and steadily for the space of 2 or 3 years, 
writing books about n’importe quoi,° as we did before 1848, we 
should have been appreciably better off. But that was impossible, 
and now the storm is already brewing. You ought to finish your 
Economy *’; later on, as soon as we have a newspaper, we could 
bring it out im weekly Numbers, and what the populus' could not 
understand, the discipuli would expound tant bien que mal, mais 
cependant non sans effet This would provide all our by then 
restored associations with a basis for debate. 

That Dana is paying £2 per article without demur is the best 
proof of how firmly ensconced you are at the Tribune. Anyway, 
there is a certain advantage in our being the only one of all the 
parties of European revolution to have expounded its ideas before 
the English-American public. The Yankees know absolutely nothing 

@ Pulszky (see this volume, p. 288). - > citizens ~- © when Count Hatzfeldt’s property 
reverts irrevocably to public ownership - ¢ party spirit and ambition - © no matter 
what - f people - § disciples would expound after a fashion but not, however, 
without profit 

about the rest, for all Kossuth’s twaddle amounted to was money 
for, and intervention on behalf of, the great man Kossuth. 
Doubtless Monsieur Bamberger will advance more against the next 
bill, the first having been paid so promptly. 

Your 
F. E.