[London,] 8 March? 1851 

Dear Engels, 

No more than a matter of fact line or two today. 

As you will have seen, The Times didn’t accept the stuff.? Mais 
ga ne nous regarde plus. 

Harney had already written to Schramm the day before 
yesterday morning. That idle jackass went out at 9 in the morning 
and didn’t return home until one o'clock at night. So he did not 
find the letter till yesterday. 

Harney is publishing his statement.? Has written a satisfactory 
introduction to it. Addresses Schramm as ‘pear Schramm’ and 
reminds him that he too must abide by his obligations and not 
have recourse to the pouice courr—this document is aimed at the 
French. 

Yesterday the Patrie‘ (and today the Constitutionnel) carried a 
statement by Messrs Blanc, Barthélemy, Schapper, Willich and all 
the rest of the committee, in which these gentlemen declare that 
Blanqui had not sent the toast to any member of the committee. 
The Patriés comment is that it had not wished to print the 
statement without first making inquiries. Whereupon it had been 
informed by Mr Antoine—Blanqui’s brother-in-law—that the 
toast had been dispatched to Barthélemy, one of the co- 
signatories, who had acknowledged receipt of same. You can 
imagine the lamentations in that camp! 

Mais ce n'est pas tout! 

Yesterday morning, then, Wolff sent Wdloff, in company with 
a real live Englishman, to see Landolphe. The fellow behaved like 
a discountenanced Grec,’ first lamenting, declaiming, vapouring, 
expostulating, arms and legs all over the place, and then relapsing 
into a state of total and ineffectual pusillanimity. Will be placed on 

a A slip of the pen in the original: February. - > F. Engels, “To the Editor of The 
Times’. - © But that no longer concerns us. - 4 C. Schramm, ‘To the Editor of The 
Friend of the People’, The Friend of the People, No. 14, 15 March 1851 (a protest 
against the insulting attitude to him and Pieper at the meeting on 24 February 
1851). - © La Patrie, No. 66, 7 March 1851. -£ But that’s not all. - 8 Ferdinand 
Wolff - » Greek (here: cheat) 

record this evening before the miserable crapauds* of Church 
Street.°” 

Finally, bad news from my mater. She has made everything 
dependent on Bommel.” I shall probably have to hazard a coup de 

désespoir. 

Your 
K. Marx 

I have received Willich’s letters from Becker.’ You will get them 
on Tuesday.