{[London,] 8 July 1853 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Engels, 

Dr Jacobi, the bearer of this note, was one of the accused at the 
‘communist trial in Cologne’. 
I’m at a loss to understand whether your continued silence is 

due to illness, pique, overwork or what. 

2 But we shall see. - » uttermost -¢ kK. Heinzen’s pamphlet Mord und Freitheit. - 
d See this volume, p. 331. - © K. Marx and F. Engels. “The Rocket Affair—The 
Swiss Insurrection’; F. Engels, ‘Political Position of the Swiss Republic’. 

13* 

Yesterday I drew £24 on Dana at Spielmann’s in Lombard 
Street; Spielmann will pay me in 5 weeks as soon as the bill is 
returned. In the meantime I shall have another very bad spell to 
go through, the more so since a number of valuable things now in 
pawn will have to be repledged or else they will be forfeited, and 
that is, of course, impossible dans un moment when the wherewith- 
al even for les choses les plus nécessaires is lacking. However, I’m 
now well-accustomed to being in the soup and all that that entails. 

In any case write and tell me why you're not writing. I hope, ar 
ALL EVENTS, that you are not ill. 

Your 
K. M. 

{On the back of the letter} 

Friedrich Engels. 48 Great Ducie Street, Manchester