MARX TO ADOLF CLUSS'” 

[London, 23 April 1852] 

You will realise that Weydemeyer’s letter* made a very 
unpleasant impression here, particularly on my wife, since it 
arrived on the day of my youngest child’s” funeral; for two years 

@ See this volume, p. 85. - » Franziska 

now she has seen all my enterprises regularly come to grief. The 
prospect held out by your letter (arrived 19th Apr.) of receiving 
the ‘Bonaparte’* in print was therefore all the more welcome to 
me, for by nature she is very resilient and your letter set her up 
again...