Manchester, 23 February 1860 
6 Thorncliffe Grove, Oxford Road 

Dear Lassalle, 

I am at present having to conduct two lawsuits, one in Berlin 
and another in London,” while, at the same time, simply working 
for a living, and am unable to write you more than a few lines. 

I must say that, having seen the book, I’m astonished at the 
‘great deal of truth’ you discovered in Vogt’s romance," no less 
than at the pusillanimous advice you gave me. 

As for the only part that wasn’t pure invention—Techow’s letter,” 
or rather the substance thereof—I refuted this 7 years ago in a 
pamphlet which appeared in New York under the title The Knight 
of the Noble Consciousness, and to such good effect that all the 
yapping curs, who then still all belonged to the same pack, held 
their tongues and dared not utter a single word in reply. 

What I should like you to do and what would be of inestimable 
use to me, would be to find out who is the Daily Telegraph’s 
correspondent in Berlin and where the brute lives, the number of 
the house and the name of the street. I believe he’s a Jew called 
Meier.” It shouldn’t be at all difficult for you, in view of the 
position you occupy in Berlin, to find this out. Please advise me of 
it forthwith. 

I enclose the pamphlet on the communist trial.? 

Your 
K. M. 

P. S. As for my mistrust (you compel me to talk like statesman 
Blind, vide the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung”), that’s something at 
least you can’t complain of. Take, for instance, the enclosed note 
from Baltimore (United States). That note was sent to me in 
confidence.'*° The official allegations against you (among them the 
assertions of a workers’ deputation from Dusseldorf‘) are in the 

aC. Vogt, Mein Prozess gegen die Allgemeine Zeitung, Geneva, 1859. - > K. Marx, 
Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne.-* See this volume, 

p. 35. 

League’s* files, which are neither in my possession nor am I 
authorised to use them.