London, 30 January 1860 

Dear Lassalle, 

I was very glad to get your letter. For I had believed—and had 
written to tell Engels so?’—that your reason for not writing was 
pique at my last letter.’° 

I can only spare a minute or two since I have a leader to write 
today for the New-York Tribune. Quite briefly then: 

1. I shall send you the pamphlet on the ‘Communist Trial” 
straight away. So far as I am aware, you have already had one 
from me. 

a large part-> See this volume, p. 6.-¢ K. Marx, Revelations Concerning the 
Communist Trial in Cologne. 

2. Vogt has been careful not to let his Telleringian concoction— 
ie. the first version *!—reach us here. Neither Freiligrath (whom I 
have just seen) nor Kinkel, nor the Hermann, nor any of the 
booksellers over here have had it. The imperial rascal?’ wishes, or 
course, to steal a march on me. 

What I know, I have learned from the National-Zeitung.* A pack 
of Stieberian lies. 1 have written and told my lawyer in Berlin” to 
sue the N.-Z. for libel. What do you think of this? Let me know by 
return. 

From your letter I see that Vogt himself admits having been 
bought indirectly by Bonaparte,” for I know about the manoeuvres 
of your revolutionary Hungarians. I denounced them in London 
in an English paper‘ and had five corirs sent to Mr Kossuth. He 
kept his trap shut. In New York, and elsewhere, Hungarian 
refugees have adopted resolutions censuring him. 

Your reasoning ad vocem Vogt eludes me. I shall write a 
pamphlet as soon as I get hold of his rubbish. But I shall begin by 
saying in the foreword that I don’t give a damn about the opinion 
of your German public. 

Liebknecht is an upright man. The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung 
is—to my mind—just as good as the N.-Z. and the Volks-Zeitung.” 

To judge by the excerpts I have seen in the N.-Zeitung, Vogt is 
some kind of Chenu or de la Hodde.** 

3. About my work on political economy—the second instalment, 
when it appears, will contain only the conclusion of section I, 
Book I, and there are six books.*”? Hence you cannot wait until it is 
finished? However, you would, in your own interests, be well-advised 
to await the next instalment which contains the quintessence. 
Appalling circumstances are to blame for the fact that it isn’t yet in 
Berlin. 

Salut. 

K. M.