MARX TO EDUARD FISCHEL '” 

{[London,] 1 June 1860 

Sir, 

For the past three weeks I have been suffering from a liver 
complaint, which has made it quite impossible for me to write or 
work and from which I have not yet wholly recovered. As a result, 
I have got into such arrears with my work that the next few weeks 
are spoken for, and hence I shall under no circumstances be able to 

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start contributing immediately to the new newspaper.* Could you 
send me one or two numbers of the same for my perusal? And 
likewise give me some advice about the principar Managers Of the new 
undertaking? Black, red and gold is a couleur which can now be used 
to some effect vis-a-vis other countries.'” 

I recommend to you Mr Georg Lommel, 85 rue du Nord, Café 
Court, Genéve, for the post of Geneva correspondent of the 
paper. 

Geneva is now a major seat of Bonapartist intrigue, and 
Lommel is well informed. I am convinced that he would agree to 
act as your correspondent on very reasonable terms. 

Ad vocem Abel: Many thanks for this discovery.'”’ Who is Abel? 
You would greatly oblige me by sending a few more details; 
indeed I should like to have this information as soon as possible. 

I have doubtless already told you that the Chief Public 
Prosecutor has upheld the Public Prosecutor’s* dismissal of my 
libel action on the grounds that no ‘public interest’ would be 
served thereby. So the civil action will now be going ahead. 

You will have seen in the papers that Reuter, the Jewish 
confidence trickster who owns the London telegraphic bureau, was 
presented to the Queen.’ Quite simply the facts are as follows: 
Reuter’s factotum—he himself being barely able to write gram- 
matically—is the Viennese refugee Sigmund Englander. This 
Englander was previously in Paris, where he contributed to a 
lithographic news bulletin run under the auspices of the then 
minister of police; at the same time, he was a French mouchard* 
When the Oriental war’ broke out, he was expelled from Paris 
because it had been discovered that he was a Russian spy. He then 
came to London where he eventually entered the service of 
Reuter, with whom he had already had connections earlier on. 
Now, since the entire European press is controlled by Reuter via 
his telegraphic bureau, and the telegraphic bureau by the Russian 
embassy via Englander, you will understand why Pam presented 
Reuter to the Queen. So far as I know, the presentation had 
something to do with Russia’s entry into the Austro-Prussian 
Telegraphic Union. I have informed Collet of the racis. Perhaps 
you for your-own part may be able to make use of them. 

I am, Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

K. Marx 
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72. Marx to Ferdinand Lassalle. About 2 June 1860 145 

None of Engels’ pamphlets,” except for one copy, has yet 
reached either Engels or myself. It would also seem that the 
publisher” has not even inserted the usual publisher’s advertise- 
ment in the newspapers.