{London, mid-November 1853] 

As regards the Reform, I shall see what can be done in 
Germany and Paris. Pieper is now in business and spends from 9 
in the morning until 8 at night in the City. So what with his work 
as correspondent for the Union, has little time. He’ll do something. 
If any money is forthcoming, I would suggest that Eccarius get 
some first so that he doesn’t have to spend alli day tailoring. In 
accordance with an agreement made with me, he will now be 
sending articles regularly. Do try and see that he gets something, if 
at all possible. With regard to his French articles, Jones is no 
longer printing them,’ nor has he returned me the manuscript, 
which isn’t therefore available dans ce moment,* Jones being away 
on an agitation tour. I have written to him about it, however. I 
have also asked Heise. Diversity is desirable and, by consorting 
with us Heise will, I believe, change for the better. I have asked 
Lupus and Dronke through Engels.” Probably little will come of it. 
In Lupus’ case, age and bachelorhood combine to lead him into 
mischief during this sorry interregnum. 

Not yet seen Willich’s damp squib.“ The war news takes up 
almost my whole attention and there’s no time left to think about 
the great Willich. Despite the electric telegraph, the News arrives 
late, is very confused and fragmentary and has, moreover, all 

4 at the moment - © See this volume, p. 396. - © A. Willich, ‘Doctor Karl Marx und 
seine “Enthillungen”’. 

passed through the hands of the Vienna _ police—i.e. been 
censored. The news from Constantinople is of course much 
delayed. The heroes of democracy are preparing to march. An 
evil omen for the Turks. 

Quant a* Willich, I should much prefer it if I could be spared 
personal statements and my contribution be confined to produc- 
ing, for the feuilleton of the Reform, a psychological—or rather, 
phenomenological—genre picture of this shabby philistine’s ‘form 
of consciousness’. 

Last Tuesday,” at the same time as your letter, I received one 
from Klein which was, I must say, most delightfully written, witty 
and considered. He tells me that he, too, will make a statement 
against Willich, since he can prove that the man was a fraud all 
the time he was in London. Klein is obsessed with the idea that 
you people are treating him very much de haut en bas. I shall try 
and smooth out this difference. 

As regards the Tribune, the most ingenious way of handling the 
thing might have been to make people believe they ‘recognised my 
style’.“*? I have become very thick with Urquhart as a result of the 
Palmerston article.“ To help me, he has sent me_ several 
books—with which, however, I was already familiar...*°°