MARX TO ENGELS*”? 

[London,] 16 March 1868 

Dear Frep, 

Enclosed a letter to Kugelmann from a young Bielefeld 
manufacturer.‘ I am particularly amused by his idea that I myself 
must have formerly been a sewing-machine Employing MANUFACTURER. 
If people only knew how little I know of all that stuff. 

The question is also unavoidable: what now? The fellows all 
want recipes for miracle cures, and do not see the fairly graspable 
cure by fire and iron already plainly indicated. 

a Bruno Bauer - > Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales. - © Gustav Meyer (see this 
volume, p. 552) 

It is strange how Dollfus (Alsace) has won such false renommé. 
This Humsuc, who ranks far beneath such Englishmen as Briggs, 
etc., has drafted his contracts with his workers, contracts that 
could only be entered into by a degenerate rabble, in such a way 
that they do in fact become his colony of serfs, and in fact he 
treats them well ‘as serfs’, and exploits them as neatly as anybody 
else. And on this account the brute recently introduced in the 
Corps législatif the nasty paragraph of the Press Law about the ‘vie 
privée qui doit étre murée’*°'' For here and there light had been 
thrown on his philanthropic juggling. 

The way in which the English in Ireland are now treating 
political prisoners, or just suspects, or those only sentenced to 
ordinary prison terms (like Pigott of The Irishman and Sullivan of 
the News’) in fact exceeds anything seen on the Continent?— 
except Russia. They are curs! 

Salut. 
Your 
K. M.