Draf 
at Manchester, 6 May 1858 

To Mr R. Schramm in London 

I have just received your note dated the 3rd. 

After the death of my friend, Conrad Schramm, I instructed 
Mr Harney to return to us, not you, the letters from Marx and 
myself found among his papers,° since those letters were not 
intended for you. And this indeed was done. 

I can see no reason whatever why I should discuss with you 
matters which concerned no one but myself and my late friend 

a 6 May 1858 - > by and large - © See this volume, pp. 252-53. 

and party comrade. While Conrad was still alive your own friends 
were surprised at the indifference you showed towards his 
financial circumstances. 

In so far as I had anything to say about the disposal of Conrad’s 
effects, I have said it to his only possible executor, Mr Harney. 

As to my ‘sense of justice’, which has nothing whatever to do 
with the case, you may perhaps have occasion to become better 
acquainted with it some day in Germany. 

I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 

F. E.