Marx to Engels

in Manchester

[London] 18 March 1865

Dear Fred,

I would have a great deal to write to you, and in part important things. But because, owing to my departure tomorrow!!, a very great deal of business has to be done, I will only relate the following matters of fact:

Received the last half of the notes.

You can send the Post Office order to my wife.

I have sent a note from Bender, in which he asks for 50 copies etc. of your pamphlet, to O. Meißner himself, since I had to write to him today. Possibly Meißner’s answer might come too late for the next “Londoner Anzeiger”. Since Bender undoubtedly knows best how to disseminate things of this kind in England, send him at once, if you can (i.e. know the matter yourself), notice of the price of the pamphlet. He will then insert it straight away in the next number. His address is 8, Little Newport Str., Leicester Square.

I had made for Bender a short, quite summary little article, a sort of table of contents, as seemed to me suitable for his paper, and to Juch, on the other hand and on the contrary and inasmuch as, I sent only your pamphlet itself with the request that he review it in his own manner and from his standpoint. Now I receive the enclosed note from Juch (keep it!). There was absolutely no more time for a review. I therefore sent Juch the notice originally intended for Bender (today in the “Hermann”) (to Bender, on the other hand, the enclosed few words). At the same time I wrote to Juch – diplomacy more and more necessary – that, owing to my departure, I could not satisfy his request; he should give copious extracts in a later number; on my return to London I would speak with him about his lack of collaborators. (I think, * … to accommodate Eccarius there – instead of in the “Social-Demokrat”.) I have likewise sent him – which, however, can only appear in the “Hermann”, which comes next Saturday – a copy of my declaration against Schweitzer (simultaneously to “Reform” in Berlin and “Düsseldorfer Zeitung”); in the version for the “Hermann” nothing altered except added at the beginning a dig at Blind.

Bender writes to me likewise: “Most obliged for the notice you sent; but now we also need a review.” This I have entrusted to Eccarius.

I enclose also a number of the “Rheinische Zeitung” sent to me by Liebknecht, with his speech. His wife has written to mine; they are in a terrible way. He still owed £5 to the “Social-Demokrat” etc. I cannot send him anything at this moment.

I enclose the “Nordstern”. You must keep this document. You see, the gentlemen would now like to make out that the unfortunate Schweitzer has completely falsified Lassalle.?! My declaration against Schweitzer, in which, albeit in a very indirect form, Lassalle himself is rejected, therefore comes very opportunely. The matter will gradually become clear.

From the enclosed letter of Bruhn it appears that I was right about Frisch. I have sent him the 6 Taler (instead of 60 T.), although I do not believe it, and at the same time told him I would further “investigate” about the 50, etc.

Salut.
Yours,
K.M.

Apropos. Klings was here, passing through to America. He told me all sorts of interesting things. A genuine “Rhenish” worker.

On 5 March the Cologne branch of the General German Workers’ Association resolved to issue a protest (in the spirit of our declaration*) against “Soc.-Demok.”, but also against B. Becker, who is a kind of Biscamp Secundus. They have stopped the money supplies!!¹ And this tax refusal is contagious.

* Statement on the causes of the break with the “Social-Demokrat”.
¹ The money supply stopped.