MARX TO ENGELS?” 

Zalt-Bommel, 22 December 1863 

Dear Engels, 

You will see from the address that I am back in Holland, where 
I arrived safely yesterday. In Trier, where the papers and effects 
left by my mother had been placed under seal, the unsealing could 
not take place because the Dutch powers of attorney, which must 
pass through the hands of an endless succession of authorities, 

4 Nickname for Marx’s daughter, Eleanor. 

had not yet arrived. I left a power of attorney for my 
brother-in-law Conradi for submission to the Department of Trier 
and proceeded to headquarters here, firstly because my uncle? 
holds by far the largest part of the assets, secondly because he is 
the executor of the will. However, in any case it will be another 
5-6 weeks before I receive payment of the money. Since my wife 
has to pay a butcher’s sux for £10 on 10 January 1864 (i.e. a bill of 
exchange), I should be very glad if you could attend to it. 

The carbuncle has gone the way of all flesh, but now for good 
measure my back is wickedly plagued with furuncles and last 
night, for example, thanks to these pestilential objects, I couldn’t 
get a wink of sleep which would, after all, only have been fair 
after travelling here from Frankfurt a.M. The husband? of a 
cousin of mine is the town’s only doctor and medical officer of 
health, so I am not in want of Aesculapian assistance. 

Throughout the Rhine Province, from Trier to Frankfurt a.M. 
and thence via Giessen and Cologne right up to the Dutch 
frontier, I heard nothing but abuse of Prussia. Little, very little, 
Schleswig-Holsteinianism. For the most part, it was regarded as 
‘Prussian artfulness’. 

I spent only one day in Frankfurt (where I had to visit two old 
aunts") and hence wasn’t able to see any publishers. However, I 
spoke to an acquaintance who will write to me here (after he has 
consulted with a publisher on my behaif).* 

When writing your pamphlet,’ it might be better if you were 
now to include some actual events as well, not forgetting the 
systematic blunders perpetrated by the Prussian government, the 
men of Progress*’' and the regular—since 1815 inveterate— 
Schleswig-Holstein numsuccers.?”4 

Salut. 

Your 

K. M. 

You might drop me a line or two. Address Charles Marx, care or 
Mr Lion Philips, Zalt-Bommel, Holland. 

‘Tu n'es pas un Yankee, s’écria le fanatique... Depuis que tu es ici, je tobserve. Dans la 
figure du Saxon il y a du taureau et du loup; dans la tienne il y a du singe et du chien. Tu 

a Lion Philips - > Dr. A. van Anrooij - © Henriette van Anrooij, née Philips - 
4 Esther Kosel and Babette Blum - ¢ See this volume, p. 498.- f ibid., p. 496. 

as peur de la liberté, tu parles de ce que tu ne sais pas, et tu fais des phrases. Tu es un 
Frangais!” (195-196, Paris en Amérique by Edouard Laboulaye.) (Paris 1863.)