MARX TO ENGELS” 

{London,] 16 April 1860 

Dear Engels, 

Have had some most valuable material from Lommel today.* 
However, he volunteered to submit to a further cross-examination, 
and one such has already gone off to him today.” It was also 
much needed. Moreover, in the letter in which I buttered him up, 
I suggested he should send 300 copies of his Hinter den Coulissen 
to Petsch (the booksellers) here. I would promote the sales (in 
working men’s clubs, etc.). Now he wants an advance of 150 
francs. I think that you in Manchester should c.us together 
forthwith and raise a few pounds, while I would find the rest down 
here. The man is invaluable to us. He has also written about this to 
Siebel. Hence I shall also drop the latter a couple of lines today. 
Siebel should do nothing without first consulting me. 

I enclose Weydemeyer’s letter. 

Not a word yet from that confounded lawyer,” to whom I sent a 
reminder last Friday.“ However, he’s got the retaining fee, and I 
his acceptance of the brief. So, I cannot imagine that he will lay 
himself open to a lawsuit against himself. 

A lot more sanctimonious preaching from Lassalle, together 

* See this volume, pp. 118-19. -> J. M. Weber - © See previous letter. 

with a printed essay (on Fichte’s political legacy*) for Walesrode’s 
political pocket edition, not yet out.” It appears from L.’s letter 
that he has read your pamphlet,“ which means it has come out in 
Berlin. Presumably the publisher will only start advertising it now, 
along with the Easter eggs. L.’s letter is altogether fatuous. He’s 
been ill again. He is again writing a ‘major work’.* Aside from this 
major work, he has in his mind a clear outline of three other 
major works, including the ‘political economy’, and is, in addition, 
studying 6-7 unnamed sciences ‘with productive intent. The 
Countess,° he writes, has lost a great deal of money, for which 
reason he must go to Cologne. Probably misguided speculation in 
railways, etc. 

Mont Sion does in fact exist, or so I see from the map included 
in the Brive Boox on Savoy! (in the Genevois, ex-Neutral). 

Apropos. 

Questions for Lupus: 

1. In one of his letters from Zurich I find that he was 
acquainted with Brass. Could he supply any information about 
him? 

2. Did the rump parliament in Stuttgart '* pass a resolution 
whereby the former imperial regents have the right to recall the 
German parliament on any particular occasion? 

Do you or Lupus know anything about a request for annexation 
sent in 1849 by the then provisional government of the Palatinate 
to the French National Assembly? 

When are you coming down here? 

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Your 
Moor 

Haven’t seen Freiligrath yet. The idea of meeting the chap is 
‘awful’, and yet I’ve got to swallow the bitter pill. If only for 
diplomatic reasons, after our mutual assurances of friendship. 

And then, he has written to me in an amiAs_LeE Manner.