London, 30 April 1852 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Weydemeyer, 

The news of the printing is very welcome. You must not take 
Lupus’ letter so much au sérieux. In our very straitened 
circumstances there is, you know, inevitably a surplus of irritation 
which must always be ‘discounted’ if one is to strike a right 
balance. 

Neither I nor Engels has received your anti-Kinkel article in the 
Turn-Zeitung. 1 await it with keen interest since your anti-Heinzen 
polemic was a model of its kind. 

I am horrified to learn that Pfander’s statements are appearing 
in the pamphlet. That sort of thing is all very well for a weekly 
where what crops up today is submerged tomorrow in the welter 
of time. In a pamphlet, on the other hand, it acquires altogether 

too much permanence, looks too much like a party manifesto and, 
if we want to attack the swine, there are, of course, better and 
different ways of doing so than in Pfander’s statement. Unfortu- 
nately this will arrive too late—-Just now I am negotiating with a 
bookseller here who is to get your Revolution sent to Germany. 
More about this next week. 

As regards the newly invented lacquer varnish about which I 
and Bangya wrote to you, you must not let the thing out of your 
own hands. It might set you up in funds at one stroke. Write and 
tell me when the Exhibition opens in New York, and all you know 
about it. You can make use of the opportunity both to strike up 
acquaintances and to establish all the connections with foreign 
businessmen necessary to a forwarding agency. Write to me at 
once, giving full details of the expenses you thereby incur. We 
must, of course, let you have these en avance. In the first place you 
will need a fellow to keep a constant eye on the stuff at the 
Exhibition, since you yourself cannot spend the whole day in the 
building for the sake of it. Secondly, you will need money for 
advertisements and announcements in the newspapers. So let us 
have a detailed estimate of expenses. 

As to Szemere, his pamphlet will soon be ready. But since I 
cannot, as he asks, send him a ‘bundle’ of copies of the Revolution, 
and since our enemies may have whispered in his ear that your 
paper has appeared only twice before submerging again, I cannot 
just now get any money from that quarter, for the confidence of 
these people has been shaken. But he is coming here in person and 
I shall then straighten everything out. 

It would be a pity if your anti-Kinkel polemic were not to 
appear in the very first number. The fellow is going utterly to pot. 
A Dane by the name of Goldschmidt lampooned him splendidly in 
the feuilleton of the Kélner Zeitung, recounting his meeting with 
him and Schurz in London. Dronke, finally released from custody 
in Paris, has arrived here and is saying that in private friend 
Schurz. declares Kinkel] a jackass whom he only intends to exploit. 
This man, Kinkel’s ‘modest liberator’, has smuggled an article into 
the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung in which he proclaims himself 

‘the only important man among the London émigrés’, declares 
Kinkel and Ruge to be ‘out-moded’ and, in proof of his own 
greatness, cites the fact that he is marrying a ‘rich’ girl, Ronge’s 
sister-in-law, and that, after completion of the nuptials, he will 
remove to America. Quel grand homme! Quant a Tellering, keep me 
au fait about this individual. As soon as I think fit, I can destroy 
him, not only in the eyes of our party, but in the eyes of all 
parties. 

Yesterday, then, Mr Kinkel held his Guarantors’ Congress. Mr 
Willich did not appear; he is very embittered with Kinkel as a 
result of the news which we conveyed to him by a roundabout 
route (we had had it from Cluss). Mr Ruge sent a letter in which 
he declared Kinkel to be an agent of the ‘King of Prussia’, and 
gave himself superior airs. Mr Reichenbach declared that he 
wanted to have nothing more to do with the filthy business. Thus 
a definitive committee was elected, seven in number—of the 
alleged communists only Willich, who is unlikely to accept. In 
addition, Lowe of Calbe, who has already refused. Next, Kinkel, 
Schiitz of Mainz, Fickler. I do not know who the other two are. 
According to some reports, the curs have 3,000 dollars in cash 
and, according to others, 9,000. They immediately resolved that 
the 7 members of the provisional government should receive payment, 
a fact you must report in the Turn-Zeitung. For the rest, the 
whole dungheap is disintegrating. 

Keep at least some of the copies of the Revolution ready for 
Germany until you receive my order. 

I have forwarded your letter to Jones. He cannot possibly pay 
anything. He is as dépourvu as ourselves, and we all write for him 
gratis. Cluss will have told you about the battle between Jones and 
Harney. I have sent him details of it. However, the things must 
be kept from the American Press for as long as possible. 

Big business and industry are now doing better than ever in 
England and hence on the Continent. As a result of the 
exceptional circumstances—California, Australia, England’s com- 
mercial penetration of the Punjab, Sind and other only recently 
conquered parts of India, it may well be that the crisis will be 
postponed until 1853. But then its eruption will be appalling. And 
until that time there can be no thought of revolutionary 
convulsions. 

The trial of the Cologne people has again been deferred, this 

time until the July Assizes. By then the Assizes, i.e. the jurors, will 
probably have been abolished in Prussia. 

Philistine Luning, so Dronke tells me, has been here with his 
spouse in order to unify Agitation and Emigration— fruitlessly, 
of course. 

Farewell. Warmest regards to your wife from my wife and 
myself. 

Your 
K. M. 

Hardly ever have I seen anything more stupid than Bruno 
Bauer’s article on ‘the decline of England’. 
How did the fellow manage to get in with Dana?