[London,] 28 September 1861 
Dear Frederick, 

Our youngest? has had jaundice ever since I got back**; her 
condition had been unsatisfactory long before that. Yesterday the 
yellowness was gone from her eyes, and there is every indication 
that she is on the mend. 

I sent one article to the Tribune the week before last and one 
this week.” In two weeks’ time we shall know (meanwhile I am 
continuing with one article per week) whether things can go on in 
this way. 

The Vienna ‘Presse, or so I gather from what the Times 
CORRESPONDENT wrote yesterday,’ has finally revised its attitude 
towards Schmerling and hence it may now be possible to establish 
a connection with the paper. 

In the issue of Kolatschek’s Stimmen der Zeit that arrives in 
London this Monday (or so Kolatschek has written and told 
Borkheim) there is a special supplement on Herr Vogt. 

Very many thanks for the Manchester Guardians (most useful to 
me just now) and the Barris Association publication.°?° 

At the beginning of this week, a young officer by the name of 
E. Oswald—dressed in Garibaldi orricer unirorm—called here with 
an introduction from Schily. A former Prussian lieutenant, he 
joined Garibaldi as a volunteer, and was promoted lieutenant 
under Medici. After the disbandment of Garibaldi’s army, he went 
to Paris, where he took employment as a worker. in a factory to 
make ends meet. He is now over here and intends to go to 
America to join in the struggle. What he needs are funds to get 
him there. A sailing vessel leaves here every week for New York, 
and the fare is only £6. Borkheim is prepared to put up £5 on his 
own account and that of one or two acquaintances. So it’s up to a 
few liberal philistines (Borchardt, etc.) in Manchester to raise a 
further small sum, partly to provide the passage money. The £6, 

 Eleanor Marx - > ‘The American Question in England’ and ‘The British Cotton 
‘Trade’ written on 18 and 21 September 1861. - © Report from Vienna. 23 September 
1861, The Times, No. 24049, 27 September 1861. - 4 See this volume, p. 324. 

however, does not include food. Borkheim turned d’abord’ to 
Kinkel with a view to obtaining Oswald’s travelling expenses from 
the revolutionary funds.*' But Gottfried said: quod non.” (When in 
Zurich, Borkheim had succeeded by this means in procuring the 
money for Anneke’s passage to America.) Nor will the American 
Embassy give a single farthing. Oswald seems to me to be an 
excellent young man and entirely unassuming into the bargain. 
Once he got to New York, a recommendation from me to Dana 
would be very useful to him. However, something must be done 
about it quickly, for his stay in London simply means jeux frais de 
production.‘ 

Oswald says that, as a soldier, Türr isn’t worth twopence either. 
A mere intriguer. Garibaldi kept him on, primarily because he had 
been recommended by an Italian friend of Garibaldi’s, previously 
associated with Türr, but more especially by virtue of his function 
as the ‘representative or Huncary’. Whenever Garibaldi employed 
him in any kind of independent military role, he was dissatisfied 
with him. Rtistow, too, evidently took little or no part in the affair. 
Officially his duty was that of.‘historiographer’ of the war. Oswald 
says of Garibaldi that he is essentially a guerrilla leader, but would 
be unable to cope with a larger army on a larger terrain. His 
strategical advisers are Cosenz and Medici. 

When are you going to Germany? *™* 

Best regards from all the family. Regards to Lupus, Gumpert, 
etc. 

Your 
K. M. 

Have seen Meyen’s sample issue of the Berliner Reform. Pure or 
rather filthy rubbish. 

Apropos. Have just had a letter from my niece,‘ who says that 
August Philips in Amsterdam has still not received the 
Lassalle.“ Perhaps you would find out whether it was sent off by 
the office.