[London,] 23 June? 1860 

Dear Becker, 

Would you be so kind as to forward the enclosed letter to 
Lommel?*? I am sending it through you because I only have an 
address for Lommel in Geneva which no longer appears to be 
certain. At any rate, in his last few letters L. has neither mentioned 
the letters I sent him, nor answered my inquiry regarding the failure 
to arrive (should have come weeks ago) of a parcel he had advised 
me of. 

Give Schily my kindest regards. I would ask you to arrange the 
letter Ranickel wrote him to be sent me as soon as possible. ‘ 

It was not until a day or two ago that I became capable of work 
again and I am still to a certain extent convalescent. 

The publishers of the Deutsche Zeitung, which is to come out .in 
Berlin at the beginning of July, have approached me through a 
third person“ about contributions. I have not yet given them a 

He’s ridden hence, for the forest bound, 
To exercise his horse and hound. 

The bride uplifted the scarlet red. 
There lay Herr Oluf, and he was dead. 
(Translated by Alex Miiler) 

a See this volume, p. 375. - b In the manuscript, mistakenly: January. - © Marx 
quotes an extract from Ranickel’s letter to Schily in Herr Vogt, present edition, Vol. 17, 
p 23 -4 Eduard Fischel 

definite answer. I am first asking for further particulars concern- 
ing the new organ’s staff and politics. However, from the 
advertisements that have so far appeared in the papers it seems to 
me to be ‘pro-National Association” and, or so a friend in Berlin? 
writes, it might be feasible to exert a strong external influence on 
its stand. Write and let me know if you and Schily would act as 
joint correspondents for the paper, which evidently has fonds, 
should you get an invitation to this effect either direct from Berlin 
or via London! I should like to have an answer about the matter by 
return, because I would not, of course, drop any hints to this effect 
in Berlin unless I was certain of your accepting in Paris. 

One merit of About’s pamphlet” is that the current Gotha 
catch-phrases'*’ are here officially adopted for Bonapartist use. 

I haven’t seen Sasonow over here. 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 

I would ask you to send-on the letter to Lommel as soon as 
possible.