London, 24 April 1852 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Frederic, 

You cannot imagine what a wretched time I had last week. On the 
day of the funeral, the money I had been promised from various 
quarters failed to arrive, so that I was finally compelled to go to 
some French neighbours in order to pay the English vultures. And 
on top of this, alas, a letter arrived from Weydemeyer giving 
reason to suppose that in America, too, all our hopes have been 
dashed. Cluss, whose letter you will be getting next week, now 
holds out better prospects. Quoique de dure complexion,” 1 was, on 
this occasion, very hard hit by the wretched business. 

Enclosed a letter from that cur Ewerbeck, who never uses a 
stamp and consistently robs one of one’s last 10d. Then an article 
by B. Bauer from the Daily New-York Tribune, to whose pages 
your article’ has attracted all the rag-tag and bobtail. Bauer’s 

aK. Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. - > Although by nature 
tough - ° B. Bauer, ‘The Present Impossibility of War’, New-York Daily Tribune, 
No. 3417, 31 March 1852.-4 F. Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in 
Germany. 

revelations about ‘the armies’ will make you laugh. If you are 
going to send me articles for Dana now, wait until you have 
several so that I can send them all off at once. 

Mr Tellering is publishing a monthly or weekly in New York; 
the cur himself sent me the first issue—unadulterated third-form 
drivel. 

Heise (of the Hornisse) is now an intimate of Willich’s. They are 
as thick as thieves. What can he see in the fellow? Once again they 
are bragging about a proposed coup in Germany. 

Dronke is a real imbécile. His appetite whetted by the £4 we got 
for him from the Rhineland, he went to Coblenz in the hopes 
of extorting some more, It never occurred to the jackass that 
he would be providing fresh ammunition for use against the 
people in Cologne.* The fellow’s behaviour is really too dis- 
graceful. 

Apropos. Do not forget to send immédiatement two notes to 
London as follows: 1. for Liebknecht, empowering him to obtain 
the £1 from Hain. 2. Write a brief note yourself to Hain, telling 
your ‘good friend’ in a couple of lines that, having heard he was 
doing well, you had referred Liebknecht to him re the £1. We 
must be careful not to make an enemy of him. 

The fact is that one of our acquaintances, who has hither- 
to found shelter for the night at Liebknecht’s lodgings, was 
thrown out by the latter’s landlords, and not one of us has 
been able to raise a penny for the poor devil. Accordingly I 
yesterday sent Liebknecht a note in which I told him you had 
referred him to Hain re the £1. Mr Hain appeared somewhat in- 
credulous and told Liebknecht he must first see it in your hand- 
writing. 

Let me have a few stamps, for I have a mass of stuff to send you. 

Your 
K. M.