Manchester, 28 May 1852

Dear Weiwei,

I am staying with Engels for a few days and have found your
letter here. Today you must be content with a few lines.

The main purpose of this letter is to inform you about three
individuals who will be arriving in America:

1. Heise (of the Kassel Hornisse), Willich’s agent (who, unbeknown to Kinkel with whom he is on bad terms, is seeking to
spread Willich’s renown). Apropos. Mr Willich was among the
cavaliere servante’ of Baroness von Briiningk who, once a week,
provided him, Techow, Schimmelpfennig, etc., with free board.
The Briiningk woman is a flirtatious little woman and it amuses
her to tease the old he-goat, who plays the ascetic. One day he
made a direct carnal attaque upon her and was ignominiously
shown the door. Keep an eye on Heise and don’t trust him out of
your sight.

@ whatever you do, you must be here by Friday, at four o'clock in the
afternoon - > knights in attendance

2. Schtitz from Mainz. Kinkelian. Member of the Committee for
the Administration of the European-American National Loan.”

3. Conrad Schramm. He has in his hands a credential from us, so
worded that without you he cannot take a step. In his relations with
his brother* and the latter’s other friends, his conduct has not
always been beyond reproach. The confidence you accord him
should not be unconditional but rather tempered with caution. In the
adverse circumstances here he has, furthermore, gone very much
downhill, is quite unreliable and not over-scrupulous in moneymatters, tends to swagger and boast like a commis voyageur” and
hence may well compromise those in his surroundings. On the
other hand he has a number of good qualities. I feel it my duty to
put you au fait in advance. You should also pass on_ this
information to Cluss.

As to Lupus’ letter, you should not take it too literally. Wolff
wrote in a moment of agitation and is very well aware of the many
obstacles that stood in your way.”

Don’t forget to send me in your next a detailed report on
‘Willich’s Corps’'*” in New York.

My warm regards to your wife. I hope that, ‘for all that’,* your
affairs will yet progress.

Dana has written to say he wants to do an essay on the Cologne
people © as soon as you provide him with the necessary information. So go and see him. The Cologne people are to appear before
a special Court of Assizes in June. Daniels is said to have
consumption and Becker‘ to be half blind. Mind you settle the
matter quickly with Dana and send me the article. It will provide
consolation for Mrs Daniels.

Your
K. Marx

Dear Weydemeyer,

As regards Heise, I first met him in the Palatinate. A democratic
loafer who lends a willing ear to bad jokes about Tom, Dick or
Harry, but a no less willing hand to Tom, Dick or Harry’s
pompous, democratic schemes for world conquest and world

@ Rudolf Schramm - commercial traveller - © Wilhelm Wolff’s letter to
Weydemeyer of 16 April 1852. - 4 An allusion to F. Freiligrath’s verse ‘Trotz
alledem!’ published in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung on 6 June 1848. - © Reference to
the leading article ‘Justice of Prussia’, based on the material sent in by Marx and
published in the New-York Daily Tribune, No. 3446, 4 May 1852. - f Hermann
Heinrich Becker

liberation. Recently—since his arrival in London—he has consorted exclusively with the others, never coming to see us; now, of
course, wholly in the others’ clutches. No time for any more.
Greetings to your wife.

Your
F. E.