[London,] 7 February 1861 

Dear Freiligrath, 

I have so arranged matters with Engels that you can obtain the £30 
any day you like, ditto the expenses at 24 hours’ notice. The tailleur 
thus becomes redundant, and I would ask you to let Engels know 
when he is to send the money.” 

I shall myself be obliged to go to Holland, since I won’t 
otherwise be able to weather the current crisis. Would you be so 
good as to inquire from some business friend of yours what the 
position is in regard to passports in Holland—whether one has to 
have a passport? The Tribune’s ‘turpitude’,° coinciding as it did 
with other misfortunes, was all the more disastrous for me in that 
it prevented me from making futher arrangements about my 
wife’s convalescence in accordance with doctor’s orders. Although 
I don’t belong to the category of ‘German martyrs’ and have 
always been inimical to that category, I nevertheless think I have 
had my fair share of refugee-trouble. 

Besides Lassalle’s,* I have received offers of journalistic employ- 
ment from 2 other quarters in Germany. However—and doubtless 

@ tailor - > See this volume, pp. 255, 256-57. - © ibid., pp. 252, 255, 257. - 4 ibid., 
p. 252. 

you share this view—I don’t believe the tide has risen high 
enough for me to agree to anything of the kind just now. 
Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 

You can see what a HumsBuc otp Ruge is by comparing Engels’ 
Reichsverfassungskampagne* in the Revue with the version Arnold 
has palmed off on you.