[London,] 23 January 1852 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Weydemeyer, 

Unfortunately my indisposition has up till now prevented me 
from writing to you this week, ie. for your paper.* With much 
effort I concocted an article for Dana,” who had received nothing 
from me for six weeks or more. For years, nothing has ‘so pulled 
me down as this damned haemorrhoidal complaint, not even the 
last French fiasco.‘ Enfin,* I shall be all the better for having been 
forcibly kept away from the library for 4 weeks, hard though this 
was. : 

You will be getting two more articles about the 18th Brumaire,' 
of which the first will be dispatched, come what may, on Friday 
next and the other immediately afterwards, if not at the same 
time. 

Enclosed Pieper’s article.” 

As for Lupus, I have been chivvying him a great deal and he 
seems to have made up his mind to take a retrospective look at 
Kossuth’s Hungarian carriére for your paper. You have made two 
mistakes, first in failing to name Lupus along with ourselves in 
your announcement,” and secondly in not approaching him direct. 
Make good the second with a letter which you may enclose in one 

a Die Revolution - > F. Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution, VII. - © An allu- 
sion to Louis Bonaparte’s coup d’état of 2 December 1851. - 4 Well - © of the 
British Museum -  K. Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 11] and 
IV. - 8 career 

to myself and in which you urge him to write. No one else among 
us all has his popular style. He is extrémement modeste. All the more 
must one avoid giving the impression that his cooperation is 
regarded as superfluous. 

Because I live some distance from Freiligrath and because I 
received Pieper’s article only just before the post left, we have 
today been compelled to send you two letters instead of one.* This 
will be avoided next time. 

Enclosed another statement from my friend Pfander (Bauer no 
longer belongs to our League). You will have to publish it, since 
the Windmill Streeters’ statement against him appeared in both 
the American and the European papers.” It would be a good idea 
if, beneath this statement, you were to print the comment that it 
contains only what could be published under present police 
conditions (the accounts between Bauer and Pfander on the one 
hand and the former League on the other, further, the control 
exercised by the Central Authority over the administration of those 
monies, we being in the majority on the C.A—none of these 
things can, of course, be published yet); that, counting on the 
political precautions we, for our part, have to take in Germany, 
Arnold Winkelried Ruge,” that old gossip and ‘Confusius’ of 
European democracy, made an allusion to those matters (i.e. those 
of Pfander and Bauer) about which he himself knew only from 
hearsay at 3rd or 4th hand, in the hope of incriminating myself 
and Engels in the eyes of the public, although the business was no 
concern of ours,“ in just the same way as the jackass suggested that 
it was the Windmill Streeters who threw us out when it was we 
who had broken with that society,“ as Pfander’s letter also implies. 

You might also announce that a new workers’ Society has been 
formed in London under Stechan’s chairmanship,” which will keep 
aloof from ‘Emigration’, ‘Agitation’ and Great Windmill Street 
alike, and pursue a serious line. 

Tu comprends, mon cher,’ that this society belongs to us, although 
we only send our younger people there; I refer to our ‘heducated 
people’ not to our workers. They all go there. 

@ See next letter. - > Arnold Ruge is ironically compared with Arnold Winkel- 
ried—a semi-legendary hero of the Swiss war of liberation against the Austrian 
yoke in the fourteenth century. - © A play on the resemblance between Confusius 
(confusion) and Confucius, the name of the Chinese philosopher. - 4 K. Marx and 
F. Engels, ‘Statement’ (present edition, Vol. 10, pp. 535-36). - © See K. Marx and 
F. Engels, ‘Statement on Resignation from the German Workers’ Educational 
Society in London’ (present edition, Vol. 10). - £ You will understand, my dear 
fellow - 8 Marx uses Berlin dialect: jebildeten. 

Stechan has about him something of the solidity of a guild 
brother and the fickleness of a small master-artisan, but he is 
educatable and has considerable influence in Northern Germany. 
That is why I have also called on him to provide contributions for 
you.” We have sy anp sy pushed him into the foreground, which he 
likes to shun, and into contradiction, which he likes to gloss over. 
Willich had asked him to guarantee Kinkel’s loan” but he refused. 
At first enthusiastically welcomed by Schapper and Willich, and set 
against us by them, he was soon enabled by his better nature to 
see through the shabbiness and hollowness of these fellows and 
their following. And so (with a little help from Lochner and other 
assistants with whom we had provided him incognito) he openly 
broke with the rabble. 

Is A. Hentze our Hentze from Hamm? If so, I would write to 
him, for as it is Willich has done everything to blacken me in his 
eyes. L’infdme!” 

Warmest regards from my family to yours. 

Your 
K. Marx 

I am sending material for pamphlets, etc., all in one batch, 
likewise Jones’ Notes.“ Sent piecemeal, they cost too much. The 
Northern Star is no longer in O’Connor’s hands but in those of a 
Chartist faction which is secretly in touch with the Financial and 
Parliamentary Reformers.”