[London,] 13 November 1857 

Dear Engels, 

A week ago on Thursday I waited at both the appointed 
places—which, however, was one too many—from 11 o’clock to 3. 
Then I gave the whole thing up in despair. 

I can write no more than a line or two, the article having left 
me only a few minutes until posting time. Let me know definitely 
when I can have ‘Cannon’. It’s a matter of getting the goods off to 
America at what is (for me) a crucial moment. 

Meanwhile I haven’t written a word about India. I have got to 
have some accurate military stuff on the subject, events having to 
some extent discredited myself and the Tribune. 

Though my own financial distress may be dire indeed, never, 
since 1849, have I felt so cosy as during this outbreak. Furthermore 
you can set Lupus’ mind at rest by telling him that, now that the 
whole statement is before us, I have written an exhaustive article for 
the Tribune in which I show, if only on the basis of the table of 
discount-rates for 1848-54, that the crisis ought by rights to have set 
in 2 years earlier. Moreover the delays are now explicable in such 
rational terms that even Hegel might, to his great satisfaction, have 
rediscovered the ‘concept’ in the ‘empirical diversity of the world 
of finite interests’. 

Salut. 

Your 

K. M. 

Go on sending me, as you started to do, as many Manchester 
papers as possible. Not only for the Tribune. I am thinking of 
writing about the crisis for the benefit of the fatherland.