London, 7 November 1859 

Dear Engels, 

I shall send you the Grimm.* 

I have not written anything yet about Morocco,“ or about the 
Caucasus,” or any military stuff on Asia. I have no diplomatic 
particulars about Morocco, so you will have to pick up your pen 
again. My circumstances are such as to preclude my doing 
sufficient work on the 2nd instalment, which I regard as of crucial 
importance.*” It does, in fact, contain the pith of all the bourgeois 
stuff. 

Biskamp’s letter” is infinitely discreditable; in view of his 
situation one can explain but not excuse it. The whole of vulgar 
democracy is seeking to hush up the Blind affair in the German 
press while assailing me. E.g. Mr Meyen, present editor of the 
Freischtiiz I have now sent a sharply-worded statement to the 
Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung and the Reform in Hamburg.‘ I shall 
bring Vogt and Blind face to face even if it has to be done at gun 

oint. 
: In a couple of lines in the Tribune the wretched Pulszky 
dismisses my letter as emanating from the camp of the ‘cracxen’ 
Urquhart.' The fellows dare not open their traps. For they don’t 
know what kind of evidence we have at our disposal. For Kossuth, 
or so Szemere wrote and told me, secretly decamped after the 
treaty of Villafranca without a word to Klapka and the other 
officers. For he was afraid of being handed over to the 

a J. Grimm, Geschichte der deutschen Sprache, Bd. 1-2. - bE, Biskamp, {Letter to the 
Editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung, 20 October 1859,] Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 300, 
27 October 1859. - © [E. Meyen,] ‘Der Proce Carl Vogt’s gegen die Augsburger Allg. 
Zig. Der Freischtitz, No. 132, 3 November 1859. - dK. Marx, ‘Statement to the 
Editors of Die Reform, the Volks-Zeitung and the Allgemeine Zeitung’. - ¢ K. Marx, 
‘Kossuth and Louis Napoleon’.-f Marx refers to Pulszky’s report of II 
October 1859 published in the New-York Daily Tribune, No. 5775, 26 October 
1859. 

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