in Berlin  
London, Friday, 15 February 1861  

15 Feb. 1861.  
Dear Lassalle,

I have not, as I intended, followed up my first letter to you with a second, because in the meantime a crisis has arisen. Namely, a money crisis. Dana has written to me from New York that they (the *Tribune*) have dismissed all their European correspondents, and have retained me all alone, but 1) the Cyclopaedia is for the time being suspended; 2) my work for it is suspended for 6 weeks; 3) finally, I am to write to them once less per week in future.

Under these circumstances, and with the expenses I have incurred through my wife’s illness, I must go to Holland to my uncle Philips, to put my money matters altogether in order. Since I need travelling money for this, I have drawn a bill on you for £20 1s. (about 34 thalers), at six weeks’ sight. I shall send you the cover before the due date from Holland, or bring it myself to Berlin, for I may possibly get that far. Incidentally, I am only coming as a traveller if I cross the Dutch border and step on to German soil, (were I Karl Heinzen, Heineke, the strong bondsman, I would say: overstride.)

Yours  
K. Marx