MARX TO LUDWIG KUGELMANN” 

London, 10 August 1868 

Dear Kugelmann, 

On receipt of your letter, I asked around, but in vain. At the 
moment it is impossible to get money from the Unions here for 
foreign strikes.“ The various data about the Linden factory 
contained in the latest Hanoverian papers sent me are of great 
interest to me. 

My family is, at present, at the seaside, which was all the more 
necessary since both girls? seemed very delicate after their illness. 
Lafargue, after passing his surczon examinations here in London, 
will operate as assistant at his hospital for a few weeks, and then 
move to Paris where, however, he will still have to pass the French 
medical examinations.'”! 

At the moment I am more occupied with private than with public 
Economy. Engels has offered to be my guarantor for a loan of 
£100-150 at 5% interest, the first half payable in January, the 
second in July. So far, however, I have not been able to find a 
creditor. 

I hope ‘verry’ much that the state of my work will allow me to 
abandon London for good and all and move to the continent next 
year, at the end of September. I shall strike my tents as soon as I 

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can dispense with the Museum‘ here. The high cost of living here 
is becoming increasingly burdensome as time goes on. It is true 
that the pettiness of conditions over there is not much to my taste, 
but ‘tranquillity is the first duty of citizens’,'”? and this is the only 
way to achieve tranquillity. There have been all sorts of rows here, 
in and with the so-called Frency sranch”? of the International 
WorkincMen'’s Association, about which I shall report in my next 
letter.” 

I am at present solus,” and I feel strange, missing all the 
children’s noise. 

Salut. 

Yours 
K. Marx