[London,] 27 July [1871] 

Dear Kugelmann, 

Be so good as to send the enclosed note to Liebknecht at once.”” 

I find your silence very strange. I cannot assume that the 
various packages of printed matter have failed to reach you. 

On the other hand, it would be very foolish if you wanted to 
punish me in this way for not writing—on the old principle of 
an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Remember, mon cher, that if 
the day had 48 hours, I would still not have finished my day’s 
work for months now. 

The work for the International is immense, and in addition 
London is overrun with rerucrzs, whom we have to look after.” 
Moreover, I am overrun by other people—newspaper men and 
others of every description—who want to see the ‘Monster’ with 
their own eyes. 

aK. Marx, The Civil War in France. - » K. Marx, ‘Mr. Washburne, the American 
Ambassador, in Paris’. 

107. Engels to Liebknecht. Not later than 27 July 1871 177 

Up till now it has been thought that the emergence of the 
Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only 
because printing had not yet been invented. Precisely the contrary. 
The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads its 
inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths in one day 
(and the bourgeois cattle believe and propagate them still further), 
than could have previously been produced in a century. 

My daughters have been in the Pyrenees for some months. 
Jennychen, who was still suffering from the after-effects of 
pleurésie, is, she writes me, mending visibly. 

Best thanks for your Germanic despatches. 

I hope that you, as well as your dear wife and Franzchen*— 
whom I ask you to greet cordially—are well. 

Apropos. You were probably astonished to see that I made 
references to a duel in my missive to the Pall Mall” The matter 
was quite simple. Had I not given the eEpiror this excuse for 
making a few cheap jokes, he would simply have suppressed the 
whole thing. As it was he fell {into} the trap and did what was my real 
purpose—he published word for word the accusations against Jules 
Favre et Co. contained in the Address.‘ 

Salut. 

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Your 
K. M.