[London,] 3 May 1851 

Dear Engels, 

Lupus himself has written to tell me that he has received from 
Cologne a passport to England and the fares for himself and 
Dronke.** Dronke has also sent the people in Cologne? an essay 
on the Italian revolution. 

Mais ce quil y a de dréle>: Dronke’s signature is there for all to 
see—printed by Louis Blanc—beneath the address to the then 
committee for the celebration of the February Revolution. Nous lut 
demanderons des éclaircissements sur ce fait étrange. Dans le meilleur cas, 
ce nest pas un trait d’esprit de la part de ce gnome. 

Becker* has removed his printing and publishing business to 
Verviers, and wouldn’t appear to be harmed by the government's 
persecution. An instalment of my stuff has arrived here, but only 
one copy.* 

The German Central Democratic Committee “” here broke up at 
the very same time as the great Karl Heinzen announced that he 
would pay it ‘military obedience’. The charming Kinkel has 
withdrawn, since he must, of course, avoid compromising himself 
on account of his dramatic lectures to respectable City men—12 
lectures for 1 guinea: the charmer distributes these tickets through 
a committee (including Oppenheim of Berlin) to all and sundry, 
and has an audience of 300 or so. Haug, too, has quarrelled with 
everybody. Ruge, whose finances seem to be in extreme disarray, 
intended to buy a daguerreotype establishment and to travel the 
country as a daguerreotype photographer. 

Weerth has written to me today in the highest dudgeon: he is 
sick of long noses and smoked meat. Besides, he says, he is 
threatened with ‘an excellent situation’— marriage? but is too old 
to become a philistine. You know our friend Weerth. He soon gets 

a members of the Central Authority of the Communist League in Cologne - > But 
the curious thing is - © We shall ask him for an explanation of this strange fact. At 
very best it is not a bright idea on this gnome’s part. - 4 Hermann Becker 

bored, and soonest of all when surrounded by bourgeois comforts. 
His friend Campe, morosely indicating a pile of unsold copies, 
told him: ‘Everything is well received but nothing sells.’ And that’s 
how things are generally in Germany. 

This place is swarming with propte of every kind. I don’t think 
that this will inconvenience me n any way. For such of the 
industrialists as are liberal, radical or even simply curious are 
carefully bagged by Gohringer or the Kinkel clique and then 
immediately fed with scandal about us two. Tant mieux pour nous!* 

The library has been closed all this week. There’s no more news 
of the red fool.° 

Daniels writes to say that they are nowhere better represented 
than in Berlin, where they have at their disposal two ‘gentlemen’ 
and ‘men of talent’ who are very active. 

Tupman* has the clap very badly. After a violent scene with 
Madame la baronesse“ they have partly made it up again but, as a 
result of his frivolity, his position is now more subordinate than it 
was. 

Foucault’s experiment with a pendulum is being demonstrated 
at the Polytechnical Institute here. 

I shall send off the said letter to Daniels tomorrow.*” Schramm, 
mirabile dictu,© has succeeded in obtaining a season TICKET! 

In his filthy rag* Heinzen has again been chucking his ‘native’ 
mud at me, the malheureux.” The fellow’s so stupid that, under the 
name Miller, Schramm is acting as a paid correspondent, and 
surreptitiously introducing all sorts of unsuitable tomfoolery, such . 
as the Blanqui toast, etc., into his journalistic stuff. 

A few days ago Willich met Bamberger, whom he had seen 
once before. Walked up to him. Shook him by the hand: ‘I’ve been 
very il] for 3 weeks. Couldn’t leave the house. The revolution’s 
going famously. We are very active, particularly here in Lon- 
don. Two new branches founded. Schapper’s working like a 
Trojan, 

More another time. Next week I shall really get down to finding 
your L. Blanc sources at the library. 

Your 
K. M. 

aSo much the better for us! -> Hermann’ Becker -¢ Wilhelm  Pie- 
per - 4 Baroness Rothschild - © wonderful to say - £ This seems to refer to a ticket 
Conrad Schramm received for visiting the Great Exhibition of 1851. - 8 Deutsche 
Schnellpast - » the wretch -' Louis Bamberger 

My wife sends her regards. She was furious at the importunate 
way in which Pieper promptly thrust himself upon us. 

By the way, you invariably make the Post Office the present of a 
STAMP. ONE WILL DO.