{London,] 1! February 1851 

Dear Engels, 
Iterum Crispinus!* 

I have just learned that there was a meeting earlier this evening 
in the Tottenham Court Road in honour of the late Bem. On the 
platform were: Chairman Schapper, etc., Louis Blanc and the 
remaining members of the new League of Peoples Committee. In 
one of the front rows of the auditorium sat Harney and wife. 
The bulk of those present were from Great Windmill Street.**! 
Applause greeted Schapper’s inevitable speech, ‘war To THE KNIFE, 
delivered in English. Louis Blanc spoke no better. Vive la guerre!” 
Tausenau, also present, spoke about Bem. Harney delivered a 
long and, they say, good harangue in which he finally hailed 
Blanqui, Barbés and, last of all, Louis Blanc, as the socialist 
Messiah. 

Qu’en dts-tu?* 

Suppose you attended a meeting presided over by Th. Clark 
Esq., and it was your presence and your speeches alone that lent 
any real weight to the meeting, would friend Harney regard that 
as loyal? 

Not content, then, with boosting Ruge in his Friend of the People, 
he must needs indirectly boost Schapper-Willich as well. 

Last Sunday he sent for me. The purpose being to persuade 
Jones to accept the title, ‘Friend of the People’. I didn’t go. If 
that’s what he wants, let him turn to L. Blanc, Landolphe, 
Schapper or Willich. I am fatigué’ of this public incense so 
tirelessly used by Harney to fill the nostrils of les petits grands 
hommes.” 

Apart from this accident, namely, that you, too, Brutus 
(Harney), if you don’t take sides against us at least play the 
neutral, while Engels does his best for you in Manchester, 
Eccarius' writes for your paper and I occasionally work on 

a Ecce iterum Crispinus (Behold, this Crispinus again). Juvenal, Satiraes, IV, 1 
(figuratively: the same again)-> Hurrah for war! -¢ What do you say to 
that? - 4 tired - ¢ the petty panjandrums - ! Johann Georg Eccarius 

Jones for you—apart from that, I am greatly pleased by the 
public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find 
ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our 
principles. The system of mutual concessions, half-measures 
tolerated for decency’s sake, and the obligation to bear one’s share 
of public ridicule in the party along with all these jackasses, all this 
is NOW over, 

Now, I’d appreciate an early answer to this note, too. I hardly 
see anyone here save Pieper and live in complete retirement. So 
you'll realise that I miss you all the more and feel the need to talk 
things over with you. 

You'll see from tomorrow’s newspapers that the grant was 
rejected by a majority of 102 votes.*™ 

Your 
K. M.