{London,] 15 December 1854 
28 Dean Street, Soho 
Dear Engels, 

I have just received your note and very much look forward to 
seeing you here in a week’s time.*” 

Article received.* 

Barthélemy’s end is a corious one.*"’ At yesterday’s hearing (or 
rather CORONER'S INQUEST) it was said that important papers, though 
not relating to the assassination, had been found on him.‘ It would 
be annoying if these included papers from the old days, so that we 
seemed to be connected with a fellow who—or so the louts 
boasted—was ‘saving up’ a bullet for us in the event of our 
returning to Paris. 

a F, Engels, “The Military Power of Austria’. - > Presumably, G. Diezel, Russland, 
Deutschland und die Ostliche Frage.- ° A. Bode (‘Rhode’ in the original), ‘Notizen, 
gesammelt auf einer Forstreise durch einen Theil des Europaischen Russlands’, 
Beitrége zur Kenniniss des Russischen Reiches und der angranzenden Lander Asiens. - 
4 Engels’ part of the article ‘Progress of the War’ written jointly with Marx. - 
e ‘The Inquest’, The Times, No. 21925, 15 December 1854. 

I haven’t read the Bauer, so bring it with you. 

Next week I start writing for the Neue Oder-Zeitung. 30 talers a 
month for the time being. I suppose, however, that the fellows will 
be satisfied with three articles a week. Not having the money to 
buy books, I cannot possibly bid adieu to my studies at the 
Museum in return for 30 talers a month. Much though I dislike 
the thing, I’ve accepted it for the sake of my wife’s peace of mind. 
Her prospects, of course, are GLoomy. 

What I particularly approved of in Ripley” was his not giving 
way to enthusiastic hyperbole. The strategic mistakes made in the 
Mexican War would seem to be self-explanatory in view of the 
total absence of plan. As for the nicer tactical blunders, I, or 
course, understand nothing of such matters. I should think that he 
took Napier‘ for his model, to judge by the way he depicts the 
Mexicans just as Napier does the Spaniards, and in the second 

place strives after Fairness towards the opponents. 

Tomorrow I shall be saddled with Blind and wife. This 
‘shinishter’ Russophobe and ‘repelbican’ still insists that Baden is 
the real land of the future. 

Salut. And give my regards to Lupus. 

Your 
K. M.