ENGELS TO JOSEPH WEYDEMEYER ” 

Manchester, 16 April 1852 

Dear Weydemeyer, 

Yesterday received your letter of 30 (?) March, together with the 
account of the revolutionary assembly. I note that you have 
begun to stamp your letters, which is nonsensical; this concern, id 
est Messieurs Ermen & Engels, can pay the postage. The things 
have been sent on to Marx. 

The day before yesterday I arrived back here from London, 
where I had spent Easter. Marx’s youngest child* was very ill and, 
as I now learn from him,” has since died—the second already in 
London. As you can imagine, his wife is greatly afflicted by it. 
There has also been some illness in Freiligrath’s family, but things 
are going better there. 

Dronke, as you will know, was arrested on his way through 
Paris. It was partly his own fault for, despite his earlier expulsion, 
the little man had lingered there for 3 weeks. Now he writes to say 
that he has been removed from the Mazas prison and taken back 
to the Préfecture de Police, to be sent to Boulogne and England 
on Good Friday evening. But up till now we have heard nothing 
more of him. The little man shows a remarkable talent for 
constantly getting into miscuier, but no doubt he will turn up one of 
these days. Then the whole of the N. Rh. Z. will be in England, 
for Weerth, though he is in Hamburg again just now, still has 
connection with Bradford and, no matter how he struggles, will 
always find himself cast up there again. 

It seems probable that our Cologne friends‘ will appear before 
the Court of Assizes in May, since the Board of indicting 
magistrates was expected to have decided their case by Monday, 
5 April, and will certainly not have discharged them. This is just 
as well; the public prosecutor would immediately have appealed 
against an acquittal. If a certain Hansen of Cologne, a working 
man, should arrive in New York, treat him according to his 
deserts. The fellow, a member of the League since 1848, 

@ Franziska - > See this volume, p. 78.-¢° the Communist League members 
arrested and detained under investigation 

administered, ie. drank, the monies collected for the prisoners 
before absconding to America. 

In the camp of the National Loaners there is considerable 
dissatisfaction with Reichenbach, the treasurer, for keeping so 
tight a hold on the purse-strings, since in any case more money 
has already been spent than can decently be accounted for and, as 
a well-to-do and respectable citizen, he is faced with the ominous 
prospect of the forthcoming audit. Hence Kinkel and Willich are 
furious, but to no effect: Kinkel must return to his tutoring and 
now, as in the past, Willich is begging and borrowing with an 
impudence hitherto found only among Polish patriots. Thus, 
throughout the noble émigré alliance, the most glorious confusion 
reigns and, if the Guarantors’ Congress takes place, or has already 
taken place, things will come to a very pretty pass. Lowe of Calbe 
and the rest of the Frankfurters* are now also at daggers 
drawn with Kinkel, ‘a chap with whom one can but compromise 
oneself’. 

Has Tellering got his statement into any of the papers?’”” Voila 
ce quil nous importe de savoir’ for, if so, Marx can attack it. We 
would, by the way, be very glad if Dana would send us copies of 
Marx’s articles‘; we have only had the first 6 and should be glad to 
have the following ones. If Dana pleads too much work, the best 
thing would be for you to get hold of them yourself and send 
them here. Marx has long been meaning to write to you about 
this, but just now is probably not in a state to turn his thoughts 
to it. See what you can do, for we must have a complete set 
here; later on that sort of thing will also be important as a docu- 
ment. 

My strategical article is no longer any good and is all the less 
suitable for a collection "° * as the essentials were not really in it, but 
in my letter to you.“ So do not hesitate to file it away. As soon as I 
have time to work undisturbed and some prospect of publication, 
I shall send you articles on the development of commerce and on 
the present state of the English industrial bourgeoisie.’”? For the 
present I must spend the next fortnight or 3 weeks exclusively on 
the study of Russian and Sanscrit, in which I am now engaged’; 
later, when my material arrives from Germany, I shall turn to 

* former deputies to the Frankfurt National Assembly of 1848-49 - > That is what 
it is important for us to know - © Engels is referring to his series of articles, 
Revolution and Cane Revoulan in Germany. - 4 F. Engels, ‘England’, I. - © See 
this volume, pp. 18-19. - ' ibid., p. 67. 

military matters, but there is plenty of time for that and as a task 
it is less arduous. 

The post is about to go—many regards to your wife and to 
Cluss. 

Your 
F, E.