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London, 17 January 1855 

Dear Frederic, 

I could not, or course, write to the Tribune yesterday nor can I 
do so for some time 4 venir* because yesterday morning, between 

aK. Marx, ‘The Commerical Crisis in Britain’, I and II.-> 16 and 19 
January - © some subject or other - 4 to come 

6 and 7 o’clock, my wife was delivered of a bona fide Traveller*— 
unfortunately or THE. ‘sex’ par excellence. If it had been a male child, 
well and good. 

Did you know that red Wolff is one of the Augsburger’s 
London correspondents? I found out by chance, namely by 
reading an article in the said paper‘ containing all manner of 
fatuous elucubrations on ‘house’ and ‘home’ and ‘abroad’—all this 
to throw light on the ‘ordure’ with which the British troops are 
contending at Balaklava. I saw Freiligrath and told him that in the 
Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung I'd read some nonsense of which 
only Lupus Rufus could be capable. Freiligrath thereupon 
confirmed that Wolff was the ‘reat, wenricaL Kobes’.4 

I now have Heine’s 3 volumes at home. Amongst other things 
he retails at some length a lie to the effect that I, etc., went to 
console him* after he had been ‘attacked’ in the Augsburg A.Z. for 
having accepted money from Louis Philippe.’ The good Heine 
deliberately forgets that my intervention on his behalf took place 
at the end of 1843°" and thus could have no connection with Facts 
which came to light after the February revolution of 1848.°° Bur 
Ler ir pass, Worried by his evil conscience,—the old dog has a 
monstrous memory for such things,—he is trying to ingratiate 
himself. 

I expect something from you on Frinay, then. I can’t write any 
more today, having to send out a mass of cards giving notification 
of the baby’s birth. 

Your 

K. M.