London, 23 November 1850 

Dear Engels, 

Your letter did my wife a great deal of good.*” She’s in a really 
dangerous state of excitation and exhaustion. She had nursed the 
child* herself and had fought for its existence under the most 
difficult circumstances and at the greatest sacrifice. And on top of 
this, the thought that the poor child was a victim of bourgeois 
misére, although it never wanted for any particular care. 

Mr Schramm? is thoroughly beseilered‘ and is just now at his 
most loathsome. For two whole days, 19 and 20 November, he 
never showed his face in our house, then came for a moment and 
immediately disappeared again after one or two fatuous remarks. 
He had volunteered to accompany us on the day of the funeral; 
he arrived a minute or two before the appointed hour, said not a 
word about the funeral, but told my wife that he had to hurry 
away so as not to be late for a meal with his brother.? With my 
wife in such an irritable state, you can imagine how offensive was 
the conduct of this person, to whom so much friendship has been 
extended in our house. 

a Heinrich Guido - > Conrad Schramm -‘¢ Marx coins a verb from the name 
Seiler - 4 Rudolf Schramm 

Jones has explained Harney’s true situation to me. He is sous le 
coup de la justice.* The entire contents of his paper” are such as to 
make it liable to stamp duty.*”° The government is merely waiting 
for its circulation to increase in order to nab him. The 
proceedings against Dickens have been instituted solely as a 
precedent in respect of Harney.*”’ If he is arrested he may, 
besides the actual sentence, have to serve 20 years through being 
unable to produce securities. 

Bauer‘ and Pfander have won their case.*”* Their counsel was 
Roberts. 

Your 
K. M.