{London,] 20 April 1877 
41 Maitland Park Road, N. W. 

My dear and honoured Friend, 

During your last stay at London I spoke with you of Wréblewski. 
He was the most able and gallant general of the Paris Commune, 
and even at the age of 17* years, during the time of the Polish 
insurrection of 1863, the leader of the insurgent Lithuanians most 
redoubted by the Russians. During his exile in London he has 
lived in a poor but respectable way by drawing military maps and 
doing similar work. Though brought up in the usual style of 
Polish noblemen, he has courageously borne with more hardship 
than most of the workmen exiles. It would be in the interest of 
our cause to procure him the means of entering the Turkish 

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service now that the war with Russia is at hand,2” and all the more 
so that he wields great influence over his countrymen. 

Myself, Engels and one or two other friends at London are 
willing to contribute our quota, if you and some of your friends 
would act in common with us. What he wants are the costs of 
travel and some money for dress etc. I hope that your health has 
been going on improving. Mrs Marx (who is rather ailing) and 
Tussy send their best love to you. As I do not know where to find 
you, I send this letter at haphazard. Old Leblanc, who will leave 
London for Paris, is still woefully beset by his marriage-mania. 

Yours most devotedly, 
Karl Marx