London, 30 January 1868 

Dear Kugelmann, 

Cut, lanced, etc., in short treated in every respect secundum legem 
artis.” Despite this, the business continues to break out again, so 
that I have been lying quite fallow for 8 weeks, with the exception 
of two or three days. Last Saturday I went out again for the first 
time; Monday a relapse. I hope that it will come to an end this 
week, but who can give me a guarantee against new eruptions? It is 
extremely vexatious. In addition, my head is very affected by the 
business. My friend Dr Gumpert in Manchester is urging the use of 
arsenic. What do you think about this? 

a Moses Hess - > according to all the rules of the art 

Your Coppel hasn’t turned up yet." 

Kertbény is a German-Hungarian, whose real name, entre nous,” 
is Benkert. The German-Hungarians love to Magyarise their 
names. I don’t know him personally. As he had a row with Vogt 
about 1860, I approached him for some information but received 
nothing of any use. (My Hungarian material comes partly from 
Szemere, partly from my personal experiences in London.) Later 
he turned to me in connection with a row he was having with 
Kossuth. Much as I have enquired around, I have learned nothing 
politically suspicious about him. He appears to be a scribbling 
busybody. His heresies quant a? Bonaparte may be found amongst 
many otherwise honest eastern barbarians. In any case, watch HIM. 
And I would consider it more diplomatic not to display any 
mistrust of him (for which reason I am enclosing, through you, 
the biographical note which he requested). ‘Meanwhile,’ as soon as 
the writing position no longer troubles me, I shall ‘order’ 
information about him elsewhere. 

You guessed rightly about ‘Plagiarism’. I intentionally wrote 
rudely and clumsily in order to make Hofstetten suspect Lieb- 
knecht, and to conceal the source.°” This entre nous. 

You probably know that Engels and Siebel have also had 
newspaper articles published about my book in the Barmer 
Zeitung, Elberfelder Zeitung,’ Frankfurter Borsenzeitung’? and—to 
the distress of Heinrich Buirgers—in the Düsseldorfer Zeitung.‘ 
Siebel was the man in Barmen to whom I wished to introduce you. 
He is, however, now in Madeira for his health. 

A week ago on Saturday The Saturday Review'—the ‘sioop anp 
CULTURE’ paper—included a note about my book in a review of 
recent German books. I came out of it relatively well, as you will 
see from the following passage: 

* ‘The author’s views may be as pernicious as we conceive them to be, but there can 
be no question as to the plausibility of his logic, the vigour of his rhetoric, and the 
charm with which he invests the driest problems of political economy.’ * 589 

* Ouff! 
My best greetings to your dear wife and Franzchen. You will be 
receiving other photograms from here, for we have now discov- 

a between ourselves - > regarding - © [C. Siebel,] ‘Carl Marx: Das Kapital. Kritik der 
politischen Oekonomie’, Barmer Zeitung, No. 291, 6 December 1867. - d F, Engels, 
‘Review of Volume One of Capital for the Elberfelder Zeitung’. - © F. Engels, ‘Review 
of Volume One of Capital for the Düsseldorfer Zeitung’. -! The Saturday Review of 
Politics, Literature, Science and Art, 18 January 1868. - 8 Gertruda and Franziska 
Kugelmann 

ered that the watercolours applied which look good on the first day, 
run into patches immediately afterwards. 
Write to me as often as time permits. During my indisposition, 
and many occasions for vexation, letters from friends are welcome. 
Salut. 

Yours 
K. M. 

[Autobiographical Notes]5% 

Karl Marx, Ph. D., born Trier, 5 May 1818. 

1842-43, first contributor, then redacteur en chef* of the 
Rheinische Zeitung (Cologne). During his editorship the govern- 
ment subjected the paper to double censorship; after censorship 
by the proper censor, the superior censor of the Regierungsprasi- 
dent.” Finally suppressed on cabinet orders. Marx leaves Germany, 
moves to Paris. 

1844 publishes in Paris, with A. Ruge, the Deutsch-Franzésische 
Jahrbticher, banned in Germany. 

Further Die heilige Familie, Kritik der kritischen Kritik, gegen 
Bruno Bauer und Konsorten. (Frankfurt a/M. Literarische Anstalt.) 

January 1845,° expelled from France by Guizot at the instigation 
of the Prussian Government, Marx proceeds to Brussels, forms the 
German Workers’ Society in Brussels in 1847,‘ gives lectures on 
political economy there,**' contributor to the French Réforme 
(Paris), etc. 

1847: Misére de la Philosophie. Réponse a la Philosophie de la Misére 
de M. Proudhon. 

Ditto: Discours sur le libre échange and other pamphlets, 

1848, with F. Engels: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei. Ar- 
rested and expelled from Belgium, invited back to France on the 
written invitation of the provisional government. Leaves France 
April 1848, founds in Cologne: 

Neue Rheinische Zeitung (June 1848-May 1849). Marx expelled 
from Prussia, after the government had vainly prosecuted him 
through legal channels. Twice acquitted at assizes (once press trial, 
the other time for incitement to rebellion). Marx’s defence 
speeches published in Zwei politische Prozesse, Cologne. 

1849. Final, red issue of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. 

@ editor-in-chief - > District. President - ¢ Inaccuracy in the original: December 
1844. - 4 Ditto: 1846 

Marx moves to Paris. Expelled from there August? 1849, was to 
be interned in Brittany (Morbihan), refuses this, expelled from 
France, moves to London, where he has resided unul the present. 

1850 published: Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Politisch-dkonomische 
Revue (Hamburg). 

1851-52: contributor to the London Chartist paper: The People’s 
Paper, Ernest Jones’: Notes to the People, etc. 

1852: Der 18. Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte, New York. 

Enthüllungen tiber den Kommunistenprozess zu Kéln, Basel. Since 
this edition was confiscated on the German frontier, new edition 
in Boston, 1853. 

1853-54: Flysheets against Lord Palmerston.*” 

1859: Zur Kritik der Politischen Ocekonomie, Berlin. 

1860: Herr Vogt. 

1851-1862": regular contributor to the English-language 
Tribune (New York).< Contributions to Putnam’s Review (New 
York)* and the new Cyclopaedia Americana (New York). 

1861: after the amnesty visited Berlin; Prussian Government 
refused his renaturalisation.>* 

18649: published by order of the Central Council of the 
International Working Men’s Association Address to the Working 
Class of Europe. . 

1867: Das Kapital. Kritik der polttischen Okonomie. Vol. I, 
Hamburg.