[Manchester,] 4 February 1860 

D. M., 

One keeps changing one’s mind every night as is inevitable, 
since we’ve not yet set eyes on the stuff.* 

The Hirsch affair is truly splendid.” 

The lawsuit in Berlin also strikes me as a very good idea, always 
assuming they allow it, though I don’t see how they can deny you 
Justice.“ 

Re Lupus“ and the affair in general, I waded through the 

aC. Vogt, Mein Prozess gegen die Allgemeine Zeitung. - b See this volume, 
p. 16 - © This refers to the lawsuit Marx intended to bring against thé National- 
Zeitung (see this volume, p. 22). - 4 See this volume, pp. 15-16. 

better part of the records for 1850/52 yesterday evening. Lupus 
cannot recollect anything at all and I have to keep jogging his 
memory. Not that I’m much better; since those days so much 
BITTER BEER has flowed down my gullet that many things are difficult 
to ascertain. As regards Lupus the following emerges: 

1. In 1851, not 1850, when the document appeared in the 
Karlsruher Zeitung (our plan of campaign against the democrats‘), 
Lupus was still in Zurich” and was attacked by the fellows as one 
who happened to be in their midst and was a member of our 
League.” 

2. Another document, however, had appeared previously in, if 
I’m not mistaken, the Hannoversche Zeitung, namely a circular from 
the Cologne Central Authority composed by Birgers.™ But I can’t 
ascertain exactly whether it happened in the Hann. Ztg. You must 
go into this. 

3. Vogt has jumbled all of this up and has Lupus writing a 
document in London in 1850 which was produced in Cologne at a 
time when Lupus was still in Zurich. (L. came to London after 
5 May and before 21 July 1851.) All that remains to be ascertained 
is whether Burgers’ document really did appear in the Hann. 
Zeitung, and how it fell into the hands of the Hanover police. The 
letters I wrote you between February and April 1851 are bound to 
contain some mention of it.“ Let me have particulars about this; 
without them I hardly imagine that Lupus’ statement‘ will suffice. 

The item in The Times (original source Augsburg Allgemeine 
Zeitung) had already been noted.” 

I am starting on my thing today. Up till now, the Vogt rumpus 
has prevented me from doing so. This time I shall again describe 
myself as the ‘author of Po and Rhine’ so as to get that personage 
all the more firmly established in the field of military literature— 
if I put my own name to it the immediate result would be a 
conspiration du silence. At the same time, however, i.e. about a 
fortnight after it comes out, I shall get Siebel to arrange for an 
appropriate review to appear in the papers. In general, this fellow 

a K. Marx and F. Engels, ‘Address of the Central Authority to the League, June 
1850’. - > Wolff lived in exile in Zurich from August 1849 to May 1851]. - © See 
Engels’ letter to Marx of 27 June 1851 (present edition, Vol. 38). -¢ W. Wolff, 
‘Erklarung’, Die Reform, No. 18, 11 February 1860; Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 44 
(supplement), 13 February 1860, and Volks-Zeitung, No. 47, 24 February 1860. - 
e F. Engels, Savoy, Nice and the Rhine. 

could be very useful to us in the Vogt rumpus; he has masses of 
connections. 
Many regards to the ramicy. 

Your 
F. E.