{London,] 4 July 1864 

Dear Frederick, 

On 3 June you wrote and told me that you would be serriine the 
business of the money with Borchardt the following day.” I have 3 
reasons for wishing the thing to be settled: 

1. Because of Borchardt; 

2. I do not know by what rumour (perhaps deriving from 
Germany, Trier) I have come to be known as a ‘legatee’. It’s 

4 See this volume, pp. 540-42.- > See this volume, p. 535. 

fantastic what bills I’ve been sent, dating back to ancient Times (Neue 
Rhewnische Zeitung included). 

3. Had I had the money during the past 10 days, ’'d have made 
a great deal of money on the Stock Exchange here. The time has 
come again when, with wir and very tirrie MONEY, it’s possible to 
make money in London. 

_ For these reasons I’d like the business to be settled, after 
deduction, or course, from my share of the sums required for 
duties and other outgoings—to the Lawyer, etc. 

You WILL MUCH OBLIGE ME BY SETTLING THESE THINGS BEFORE Juty 15. You must 
excuse me for bothering you in view of your CHARGE OF BUSINESS, BUT 
THERE ARE VERY SERIOUS INTERESTS AT STAKE. 

Many thanks for settling the Freiligrath affair.* Is the portrait he 
sent you the sinister Faustian one little Jenny has got in her 
album? 

My wife, who attended an auction to buy the things she still 
required, has purchased a sturdy carvinc knife AND fork for you and 
will send them off today. I had told her there were none in your 
household. 

Greetings from the Emperor or Cuina? et cie. 

Your 
K. M. 

My nose, mouth, etc., still bunged up with influenza so that I 
can neither smell nor taste. 

During this time, being utterly incapable of work, have read 
Carpenter, Physiology, Lord, ditto, Kaolliker, Gewebelehre, Spurz- 
heim, The Anatomy of the Brain and the Nervous System, and Schwann 
and Schleiden, on the cells business.‘ In Lord’s Popular Physiology, 
there’s a good critique of phrenology, although the chap’s PENEIOUS: 
One passage recalls Hegel’s Phenomenology, it reads: 

*"They attempt to break up the mind into a number of supposed original faculties, 
such’ as no metaphysician will, for a moment, admit; and the brain into an equal 
number of organs, which the anatomist in vain asks to be shown, and then proceed to 
attach one of the former unadmitted suppositions as a mode of action to one of the 
latter undemonstrated existences.’ * 

As you know, |. I’m always late off the mark with everything, 
and 2. [ invariably follow in your footsteps. So it’s probable that I 

4 See this volume, p. 548.- > Marx’s daughter Jenny - © Th. Schwann, Microscopical 
Researches into the Accordance in the Structure and Growth of Animals and Plants; 
M. J. Schleiden, Contribution to Phytogenesis. 

shall now devote much of my spare time to anatomy and physiology 
and, in addition, attend lectures (where there will be practical 
demonstrations and dissection).