[London,] 16 November 1859 

Dear Engels, 

I hope that a Morocco will arrive from you on Friday.* Apart 
from everything else, this is the time of the presidential elections, 
and in any case I fear that restrictions will again be put on the 
quantity of articles to be delivered. This fate will befall me all the 
sooner if, given the present shortage of material, I don’t write 
about themes like this that interest the fellows. 

You must also write something for me, PRIVATELY, OF Course, not for 
the Tribune, about the Schiller tomfoolery in Manchester. In my 
next I shall tell you about the Kinkel festival down here. Just now 
Freiligrath is deeply resentful of Gottfried. Meanwhile you should 
read the latest number of the Hermann” and see with your own 
eyes how ‘Parson Charming’ drools over himself. 

The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung has not, it seems, accepted my 
declaration because it was apparently rendered superfluous by the 
one sent to them by Blind.° I have now sent them an answer to 
this slyboots from Baden with a positive demand—for I refer at 
the same time to the letters they wrote me%—that they print my 
answer.* 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M.