MARX TO FERDINAND LASSALLE*”’ 

[London,] 29 May 1861 

Dear Lassalle, 

I have written to a friend* in Germany* who, I hope, will send 

you the remaining £10 (67 talers) within a week at the latest. I’m 
horribly put out by this business, but my uncle,” as is the wont of 
such old gentlemen, while on the whole doing what he promised, is 
at least creating difficulties for me. 

Because of conditions over there,*°’ my American articles‘ 
continue to be wholly in abeyance for the time being, and will so 
continue until circumstances in Europe again acquire some interest 
for the “TRANSATLANTICS, 

In Paris the workers are in a most sorry plight as a result of the 
American crisis. Ditto in Lyons. 

The whole of the official press in England is, of course, in 
favour of the slaveholders. They are the selfsame fellows who have 
wearied the world with their antisLave Trave philanthropy. But 
COTTON, corron! 

Engels has been here on a three-day visit. He is not yet going to 
move. If he did so, he’d have to give up his position, break his 
contract and incur severe financial loss, and this, he declares, he is 
unwilling to do save IN pecisive TIMEs, nor has he any intention of 
falling, perhaps before 3 months are out, into the clutches of 
Prussia’s common law without doing ANY Goop To anybody.“ Cir- 
cumstances, he thinks, are not yet ripe for the setting up of a 
paper.© He thanks you very much for the mirrary maps. 

In my letter to the countess*” which you passed on to her, I 
gave her a more circumstantial and accurate account of 
Bonaparte’s infamy vis-a-vis Blanqui, indeed of the wo tr case: No 
doubt she will have told you about it. Please convey my kindest 
regards to her. I hope she is now in better health. 

I am curious to hear more about your transactions with the 
Prussian government. Tuayxs for the zeal you have displayed. 

8 

4 Carl Siebel - > Lion Philips - © Marx means his articles for the New-York Daily 
Tribune. - 4 See this volume, p. 290. - © ibid., pp. 252, 257, 281. - £ ibid., pp. 284, 
298. ; 

To help overcome the intense annoyance I feel about my 1n Every 
RESPECT UNSETTLED SITUATION, I am reading Thucydides.* At least, these 
Ancients remain ever new. 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M.