[London,] 27 August 1860 

Dear Engels, 

You can attribute my long silence to the persistently frightful 
state of my liver, as a result of which I have to devote every spare 
moment to work. 

I wrote to Siebel re publishers about ten days ago* and await his 
reply. The long delay is due partly to my relative inability to work 
and partly to the fact that it was not till recently that I had all the 
available material. By the by, I believe that, with the exception of 
the Italian affair?’ (Austria’s craving for intervention was a 
Bonapartist figment), nothing more is going to happen this year 
(write something about Garibaldi. What do you think of Bangya’s 
friend Türr?*’), so there’ll be an interim period during which 
pamphlets of this kind will still be readable. 

The enclosed letter from Schily will tickle you very much. Let me 
have it back. Today I sent Schily your Nice, Savoy, etc. 

About a fortnight ago I sent Dr Zimmermann (formerly 
chairman of a Prussian Municipal Court) a letter, in which I put to, 
him questions relating to my case (questions of form).*? However, 

he deemed it necessary to confer with other brethren of the same 
craft in Berlin. No doubt I shall get his written opinion in the 
course of this week. [ shan’t allow the Prussians to get off so 
lightly. 

I’m in a great fix over money. 

Mr Weydemeyer’s journal* is already at an end; i.e. he has 
resigned from the editorial board and intends to go to New York 
as a surveyor. However, his colleague” is going to make the paper 
pay by selling it to a political party. Weydemeyer has at last come 
to realise that he’s too honest for American journalism. 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 

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