(London,] 28 September* 1853 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Engels, 

Herewith a letter from Weydemeyer, several from Cluss, a 
statement of Mr Willich’s,“° a letter from Mazzini to Mrs Mott 
(abolitionist) im America. 

@ See this volume, pp. 372-73 and 377-78. - > As for - © little tribulations - 4 The 
original has ‘August’. - © A. Willich, [To the Editors of the Belletristisches Journal 
und New-Yorker Criminal-Zeitung, 28 August 1853], Belletristisches Journal und 
New-Yorker Criminal-Zeitung, No. 25, 2 September 1853. 

I have split your essay into 2 and rewritten it as 2 essays* which 
I have sent to New York, my wife acting as secretary. 

Pieper has had his throat cauterised in the German Hospital. A 
little board hangs at the foot of his bed bearing the ominous 
message: Wilhelm Pieper syphilis secundaris. He is subjected to 
rigorous discipline, which is salutary for him. 

W. Wolff has written to his confidant, Rings. He is going to try 
his luck in Manchester until the end of October. If he hasn’t 
found anything by then, he will move on. For the time being, he 
says, he is living at number such and such, Great Ducie Street,” at 
‘another’s expense’. He does not name you at all, which will give 
you an idea how obstinate and petty the ovp cuar can be. After the 
way he grumbled about you he is, of course, ashamed to admit 
that he has any obligation towards you. Quant a nous autres, I 
don’t know what he may have told Rings in his letter, since the 
latter says nothing about it. 

I should like to clear up the matter with Mr Dronke,‘ having 
now learnt that he sold Pieper’s Ricardo, likewise a German history 
of political economy belonging to the working man, Lochner, etc., 
etc. Needless to say this has reinforced my strong suspicions about 
him. 

Before he left, Mr Wolff gave Imandt also an account—and a 
very garbled one coloured by philistine indignation—of his 
insolent onslaught upon me.° What annoys me is the excessive 
consideration I have always shown the old blusterer instead of 
baring my teeth at him. 

Les choses marchent merveilleusement! All h{ell] will be let loose in 
France when the financial bubble bursts. 

In the Reform there is a melancholic, stylised article by Jacobi 
about the end of the world.’ 

Don’t let these lines fall into the wrong hands. 

Your 
K. M. 

Apropos. Yesterday I received a few lines from Blind. He will 
now have to reconcile himself to abandoning his democratic 
hauteur in the knife and fork question.*”° He has lost his case and 

aK. Marx, ‘The Western Powers and Turkey.—Symptoms of Economic Crisis’, 
‘Panic on the London Stock Exchange.—Strikes’ written in co-authorship with 
Engels. - > at Engels - © As for the rest of us - 4 See this volume, p. 364. - © ibid., 
pp. 364-65. - § Things are going splendidly. - § A. Jacobi, ‘Ueber den Untergang 
der Erde’, Die Reform, Nos. 44-48, 31 August, 3, 7, 10 and 14 September 1853. 

the whole of his wife’s* fortune has been temporarily sequestered. 
So there will be no more subsidies. I feel sorry for him, despite 
the absurd manner he thought fit to adopt. 

Have you been following the story about Bakunin in The 
Morning Advertiser?” Urquhart wrote an article in this connection ‘ 
in which he suggests that Bakunin is suspect 1. because he’s a 
Russian and 2. because he’s ‘a revolutionist’; he goes on to assert 
that there are no honest revolutionaries among the Russians and 
that their would- be democratic writings (a swipe at Herzen and 
that polisson’ Golovin) prove absolutely nothing; and finally, he 
tells the continental revolutionaries that, if they take Russians into 
their confidence, they are no less traitors than their governments. 
The Russians, it would seem, then sent into the fray an 
Englishman (Richards), who nourishes a grudge against Urquhart, 
the latter having, on grounds of seniority, elbowed him out of the 
topic ‘The Times and Turkey’ in The Morning Advertiser. Richards 
maintains“ that to declare Bakunin a spy is just as preposterous as TO 
IMPEACH PALMERSTON FOR BEING BRIBED BY Russia; he invokes the testimony 
of both Ruge and myself,’ praises Herzen’s ‘idées révolutionnaires ,* 
etc. Yesterday it was the turn of A. B., another minion of 
Urquhart’s, who declared" that he was acquainted with all the 
writings of ‘la jeune Russié,' and that they proved the rightness of 
Urquhart’s views, pan-slavism, etc. 

At all events, les intrigants russes! will realise that here it isn’t as 
easy as in the pauvre“ French democracy, to give themselves airs, 
gain INFLUENCE and behave as though they were a kind of aristocracy 
within the revolutionary emigration. Here it supposes hard 
knocks. What service have the jackasses done Bakunin save to 
have him seriously accused in public while themselves receiving a 
slap in the face? :