London, 14 August 1862 

Dear Lassalle, 

Yesterday, I sent off a couple of lines to you in Berlin. Today I 
hear that you are at Wildbad. Hence I shall, in a few words, 
repeat the brief purport of the brief lines which may, perhaps, not 
reach you. 

In order to stave off the catastrophe threatening my affairs, 
Engels drew a bill on you for £60 (400 talers) through Borkheim 
on 12 Aug. Due at 3 months date from 12 Aug. Borkheim is to 
discount this bill for me here. Engels will remit you the covering 

4 See this volume, pp. 404, 405 and next letter. - > The Evening Post (see ibid., pp. 394 
and 404). - © Heimann Lassal, Ferdinand Lassalle’s father. 

amount before due date. (Then he will renew the same bill up to 
1 January 1863, when he will send you a further remittance of £45 
and you will pay £15, as you offered to do.) The only essential 
thing now is to have your acceptance. Borkheim sent the bill straight 
off to Berlin, whence it will return probably before the end of this 
week or early in the next. Then it will at once be sent to you for 
acceptance. I should be very glad if you could telegraph 
S. L. Borkheim, 27 Crutched Friars, London, saying: ‘I shall accerr 
Me F. Encers: siti or £60." Namely, so that Borkheim should not 
raise any further difficulties about the viscount. In my case, there 
is greater periculum in mora* than I can say. 

Salut. 
Your 
K. M.