[London,] 20 November 1862 

Dear Engels, 

I acknowledge, with many thanks and in great haste, receipt of 
the first half of the ten-pound note. 

If only the Mexicans (les derniers des hommes!) were once more 
to beat the crapauds,*’ but even in Paris these particular 
swine—the allegedly radical bourgeois—are now talking of 
Vhonneur du drapeau’.‘ 

Unless Spence prevails over the Norruerners, nothing will do 
any good, not even McClellan’s sap generalship. 

Salut. 
Your 
K. M.