MARX TO ENGELS*” 

[London,] 7 November 1867 

Dear Frep, 

My remerciments’ for the Elberfelder< 

Liebknecht’s old address: ‘11, Braustrasse, Leipzig.’ By the way, 
perhaps safer to forward it through Kugelmann, who is in contact 
with a friend of Liebknecht’s in Leipzig. 

I forgot to tell you in my letter of Saturday’ 1 sheet maximum 
for the Fortnightly8°° If longer than half a sheet, it should be set 
out as First Notice, Second Notice. 

As regards Meissner, it appears to me to be undiplomatic to let 
him see into our cards too much. What he can do from his own 
resources, he does anyway. It would be important—and for the 
present more important than the English article—to send a more 

a See this volume, pp. 461. - Le Courrier frangais - ¢ Paul Lafargue - 4 thanks - 
e F, Engels, ‘Review of Volume One of Capital for the Elberfelder Zeitung’. - 
f 2 November (see this volume, pp. 458-61) - 8 The Fortnightly Review 

detailed report (perhaps broken down into several articles) to the 
Austrian Internationale Revue (Arnold Hilberg’s publishing house, 4, 
Kolowrat-Ring, Vienna). As Arnold Hilberg lists you and me as his 
contributors (and through me has asked us both for contribu- 
tions), there are no obstacles here. It is in fact the sole German 
‘Review’ which is open to us. 

The only weekly paper here in London which has a certain 
impartiality and is much concerned with things German, such as 
German philology, natural science, Hegel, etc., is a— Catholic 
paper, The Chronicle. It is obviously their tendency to show that 
they are more learned than their Protestant rivals. I sent them one 
copy* at the end of last week with a short letter to the purpose, saying 
that my book does not share their opinions, but that the ‘scholarly’ 
nature of their paper suggests THAT ‘SOME NOTICE WILL BE TAKEN OF FHIS 
FIRST ATTEMPT AT APPLYING THE DIALECTIC METHOD TO Poxtticat Economy’.'"? 
Nous verrons!” There is a great desire prevailing at present in the 
more refined circles (I am referring, of course, to the INTELLECTUAL 
portion of the latter) to become acquainted with the dialectical 
method. And perhaps that is after all the easiest way to get at the 
English. : 

The most interesting thing in the enclosed Diplomatic Review is 
the excerpts from the new book by Prokesch.‘ 

Detailed description of Abercorn’s rEvicrions appeared about a 
fortnight ago in the (Dublin) Irishman.’ I may manage to get again 
the copy which was only lent me for 24 hours. 

At the meeting presided over by Colonel Dickson and at which 
Bradlaugh delivered a lecture on Ireland, our o:p Weston, seconded 
sy Fox and Cremer, put forward a reso.ution in support of the 
Fenians, which was passed unanimously. Last Tuesday ditto, during 
Acland’s lecture on the Rerorm Birt, Cleveland Hall (right above 
us, we were meeting downstairs in the corree Room, which is in the 
basement), tempestuous demonstration in favour of the Fenrans. 
The business is boiling up in the intelligent section of the worxinc 
class here. 

How very characteristic of the diplomatic farce being enacted in 
Europe at present, that at the same time as Bonaparte is 
intervening in Italy, France, Italy and Prussia are jointly, and most 

2 of the first volume of Capital - > We shall see! - © ‘Conference held on August 
the 27th, 1822, at Constantinople. From the Work of Baron Prokesch’, The 
Diplomatic Review, 2 October 1867 (excerpts from the book by A. Prokesch-Osten, 
Geschichte des Abfalls der Griechen vom Türkischen Reiche im Jahre 1821). - 4 See this 
volume, pp. 461 and 463. - ¢ In this paragraph Marx refers to the meetings of the 
Reform League branches. 

obediently at Russia’s behest, delivering a threatening note to the 
Porte.>” 
Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 

Old Urquhart with his Catholicism, etc., grows more and more 
DISGUSTING. 

On lit dans un registre d’une inquisition d’Italie cet aveu d’une 
religieuse; elle disait innocement a la Madonne: ‘Degrace, sainte Vierge, 
donne moi quelqu’un avec qui je puisse pécher.* However, the Russians 
are plus forts’ in this, too. A case is reported of a fellow in the best 
of health who emerged dead after only 24 hours in a Russian 
nunnery. The nuns had ridden him to death. Of course, in their 
case le directeur des consciences n’entre pas tous les jours‘!