My best thanks for your quick help and ditto the port wine. I know your circumstances quite exactly and that makes my own pressure on you doubly painful. This business must of course finally cease, but that is only possible as soon as I can go to the Continent and act there personally.

Next week the first batch of manuscript is at last going off to Meißner.

It was truly not the theory that caused the delay this summer and autumn, but purely the physical and bourgeois circumstances. It is now exactly 3 years since the first carbuncle was operated on. Since that time the stuff has only stopped for brief intervals and of all work, as Gumpert will also tell you, purely theoretical work is the most unsuitable when one has this devil’s dirt in one’s body. As for the present fellow, he will be cured in about 14 days. I know the treatment method now quite exactly and have also begun again with the arsenic. This in all haste.

Your K. Marx