[London,] 15 April 1851 

Dear Engels, 

You have not had a letter and are getting no more than these 
few lines now, because From pay ro pay I have been awaiting your 
letter—the one you promised. Enclosed a letter from Lupus. I 
wrote to him 4 days ago, but didn’t answer the questions 
addressed to you.*” 

a W. F. P. Napier, History of the War in the Peninsula... - > As the soldier is, so are his 
politics. 

A letter from a Fischer in America whom I don’t know. In the 
meantime I have asked Liebknecht to write to him. 

I shall send you a letter from Rothacker in my next. That 
jackass, too, is an editor in America. From his letter it transpires 
that, from the extreme far west to the east we are being loudly 
inveighed against, both in speech and in print. In his rag 
Weitling published an article said to be from Paris but in fact by 
Willich, attacking me and you.? Schnauffer, on the other hand, has 
attacked the great Willich. 

As for Struve, no sooner had he made himself answerable for 
the 10 millions, than he distributed a leaflet in the City begging 
for money to help him emigrate to America, together with 
Amalia.” In this he was successful. Last Friday he pushed off, still 
with Amalia. 

Willich, with Gohringer for mentor, is said to have become very 
devoted to the rricker. Incidentally, for a fortnight after receiving 
the latest reply from pseudo-Becker, enclosing the toast, he 
suffered from a bilious fever. For 2 weeks never left the chapel, 
i.e. the barracks. And on his return to the Windmill,**' he brought 
up for discussion the question of the toast and the introductory 
comment,° presumably so as to equip himself with a testimonium 
paupertatis< 

Schapper has framed a constitution for England since, after 
mature consideration and lengthy discussion in that same Wind- 
mill, they decided that England had no written constitution and 
must therefore be given one. And Schapper-Gebert will provide 
her with this constitution. It’s already written. 

Schimmelpfennig has been travelling round Germany and has 
everywhere been busily engaged in intrigues against us, in the 
common interest of Willich-Schapper, Ruge-Kinkel, Becker ‘-Sigel. 
Especially at the seats of Kinkel-mania, and more particularly in 
Westphalia, Osnabriick, Bielefeld, etc., where they’ve never been 
well-disposed towards us, there is no end to the tittle-tattle. 

Your 
K. M.