London, 4 October 1868 

Dear Frep, 

In the package which you will receive simultaneously there are: 

1. Two letters from Eichhoff, the forgotten one and one which 
arrived today'; 

2. Letter from Liebknecht'*; 

3. Letter from Borkheim '; 

4. Manuscript and letter from J. Dietzgen’*; 

5. Letter from the Russian Danielson in Petersburg '**; 

6. Letter from Lessner. 

Since most of these letters (which you must return with the 
exception of the manuscript) have only just arrived, in all haste 

the following: 

a man elected by universal suffrage - > See also this volume, p. 135. - © Sigismund 
Borkheim 

Ad No. 5. I am naturally extraordinarily pleased to hear that 
my book will appear in Petersburg in Russian translation. I shall 
immediately send the people what they requested * (as far as I can) 
as soon as you have returned the letter. 

Ad 4. Read through the manuscript. My view is that J. Dietzgen 
would do best if he condensed all his ideas into 2 printed sheets and 
had them printed in his name as a tanner. If he publishes them at 
the intended length, he will make a fool of himself because of the 
lack of dialectical development and the running in circles. Read it 
through and write your opinion. 

Ad 3. To understand Gaudissart’s” letter, briefly the following: 
He wanted to write about the Pan-Slav democratic movement; for 
this I gave him your articles about Bakunin in the Neue Rheinische 
Zeitung. His plan to appear with you before the public is excellent, 
but there is no hurry because he has not turned out his 25 printed 
sheets by a long way yet. 

Secondly, he maintained a certain correspondence, despite my 
warning, with Dr Crapper, alias Elard Biscamp. Now that the 
latter has directly attacked me and the International in the 
Weser-Zeitung and the Augsburgerin,* he proposes, as you see, to 
publish in Liebknecht’s paper his latest exchange of letters with 
Biscamp. Ce brave Gaudissart! In these letters he presents himself 
as my patron, and lets Biscamp flatter him. I wrote to him by 
return that I would have to protest tooth and nail against this sort 
of thing.“ For greater security I immediately wrote to Liebknecht 
that he must not print the Borkheim-Biscamp correspondence 
under any circumstances. 

Ad I and 2. I have sent to Liebknecht for his political review an 
entrefilet' about M. Hirsch (because of the ‘International’), and, at 
the same time, a few blows at Biscamp as correspondent of the 
Weser-Zeitung and the Augsburger 

Ad 6. The £100 (of which about £35 for Laura) I have used to 
pay off the most urgent things and only kept as much on hand as 
is necessary in order not to be absolutely penniless. I still have 
about £100 of debts and will soon send you a list of the rrems so 
that you can see that there are no useless expenditures on my 
part. Now I received the enclosed note from Lessner today. His 

a See this volume, pp. 123-25. - > Sigismund Borkheim’s - © F, Engels, Democratic 
Pan-Slavism. - 4 [E. Biscamp,J ‘London, 25. Sept.’, Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 273, 
29 September 1868 (published in the column Grossbritannien, signed A). - © Good 
old - f a short article - 8 K. Marx, ‘Connections Between the International Working 
Men’s Association and English Working Men’s Organisations’. 

wife is mortally ill, and it would be very kind of you to enable me 
to pay him off something. 

Your 
K. M.