Manchester, 15 March? 1860 

Dear Lassalle, 

Very many thanks for the trouble you have been to with 
Duncker in connection with my pamphlet.” I would have agreed to 
the arrangement of my being named had not another publisher‘ 
accepted it in the meantime (when this reaches you, the thing will 
probably be out) and were I not determined that the ‘author of Po 
and Rhine’ should first carve out a place for himself in military 
literature before making his official entry (i.e. on the title page) as 
a civilian before the lieutenants. When you say that you would be 
sure to convince us and hence believe it would be in our own 
interests not to commit ourselves by name to the views we have held 
so far in regard to the Italian business, your argument is, no doubt, 
of crucial value subjectively speaking; similarly we can assure you that 
we are just as sure of our ability to convince you, the more so 
since our views are based on a careful study of diplomatic material 
which, at least on certain points, is available in pretty complete 
form to the public in London, as it surely is not to the public in 
Berlin (where, indeed, it does not for the most part exist at 
all). 

Marx got your letter the day before yesterday and will be 
answering it.4 In the meantime I enclose the Knight of the Noble 
Consciousness, previously forgotten.' 

2 A slip of the pen in the original: February. - > F. Engels, Savoy, Nice and the 
Rhine. - © G. Behrend - ¢ See this volume, pp. 116-17.- © by Marx - f See this 
volume, p. 88. 

Apropos. A few days ago we got a letter from Nothjung. After 
his release, the poor devil was declared to have forfeited his right 
of domicile in Milheim ‘by reason of his many-year-long ab- 
sence’ (!!!),'*4 and has been forbidden to show his face within five 
miles of Cologne. He has become a photographer in Breslau’ where, 
after a great deal of trouble, he has obtained a resident’s permit. 
Now he has got to pay an entry fee, a household fee, and 
umpteen others such as are only to be found in a Prussian 
dictionary. This, as you can imagine, the poor chap is in no 
position to do after his long spell in prison which, to make matters 
worse, has rendered him homeless (in what sort of country can 
such things happen!) and so odious are the laws still obtaining 
there that he cannot exist unless he gets all this business settled. 
Mightn’t it be possible to do something for him over there? Such a 
thing would have been unheard of in the Rhine Province before 
1848, and even the bourgeois who helped to impose such shocking 
laws on us ought to help poor devils of this kind. Homeless 
because of a many-year-long absence in a Prussian fortress—just 
try telling that to an Englishman! His address is P. Nothjung, 
Photographer, Zwingergasse No. 7, in the Baths. With the 
connections you have in Breslau, it should be easy for you to do 
something for him. Our ex-tailor, by the way, seems to have 
acquired quite a tidy education at his fortress-university, and 
writes quite civilised letters. 

Just now I'm writing trivia about the reorganisation of the army in 
Prussia and have offered these to Duncker. 

Tout a vous” 

F, Engels 

Before I forget. Marx has written to red Wolff,’ of whom, 

however, we haven't heard for years. In the meantime Vogt, 
accompanied by the homme entretenu‘ and swinvter Klapka, has been 
to dine with Plon-Plon yet again. 

1 have re-opened this letter, having closed it without putting in the 
Knight, in order to tell you that we are unable to find the only 
copy of the thing that’s still up here in Manchester. Someone must 
have pinched it. Marx has still got some in London and is writing 
to ask that some of them be sent up here forthwith, whereupon 
we shall immediately send you one. 

You would greatly oblige me if you could send me, by return of 
mail and unstamped, a few numbers of the Volks-Zeitung and the 

 Polish name: Wroctaw. - > Ever yours - © kept man 

National-Zeitung in which the army’s constitution is discussed, and 
also one or two little pamphlets that have appeared over there on 
the subject—all of them together in one wrapper. Otherwise, it 
takes ages for me to get the things over here, and I shouldn’t see 
the newspapers at all.