MARX TO CONRAD SCHRAMM” 
IN ST. HELIER IN JERSEY 

London, 8 December [1857] 
9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, 
Hampstead 

Dear Schramm, 

Write soon and tell us how Jersey suits you. I did not see Engels 
when he passed through London on his return journey because he 
gave me the wrong time for our meeting at the railway station.” Did 
that ass Reventlow reply? Not that I suppose there’s anything at all 
to the whole affair, since in any case these Americans are incapable 
of paying just now; I only ask because of the behaviour of this 
mighty hero. And how about Mr Faucher? Has he paid up yet? 

That crazy Berlinois’ Grows FROM DAY TO DAY STUPIDER. WITNESS THE Foreign 

a ‘The Deeper Causes of the Recent Pressure’, The Economist, No. 745, 5 December 
1857. - ’ See this volume, p. 199. - ¢ Berliner 

News or THe Morninc Star, a name that bears a certain analogy with 
lucus a non lucendo.* In fact the entire English press gets worse 
every day, even without German assistance. Quite apart from the 
seismic effects of the General crisis which must delight every 
connoisseur, it is truly a relief when one is no longer forced to 
listen every day to the ENGLISH SELF-LAUDATIONS AS TO THE ‘BRAVERY’ OF ‘THEIR 
English 1n Inpia. It was really getting on one’s nerves, * this 
overtrading in other people’s courage on the part of the English 
paterfamilias and penny-a-liner who lives quietly at home and is 
-uncommonly averse to anything threatening him with the remotest 
chance of obtaining military glory *. 

Apart from the family circle, I am now pretty well cut off here. 
I seldom see my few acquaintances nor, on the whole, is this any 
great loss. The life you lead in Jersey can hardly be much quieter. 
I fear that as time goes on you will weary of your stay, or have 
you struck up acquaintanceships or any xinp? True, Harney is so rar 
quite a companionable fellow, but toujours perdrix is, of course, apt to 
pall. I hope to see you again in the spring, provided you don’t move 
further south. In any case drop ONE OR TWO LINES. 

Salut. 
Your 
K. M.