London, 19 August 1852 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Engels, 

I had 10/- handed to me by Dronke. Yesterday £2 by post. 
However welcome the money was, I find it most ennuyant that 
you should squeeze yourself dry for me, and this at a moment 
when you yourself are plus ou moins? in a fix. 

As regards the Hungarian war, you would probably do well to 
have a look also at the following: 

The Fortress of Komarom (Comorn) during the War of Independence 
in Hungary, by Colonel Sigismund Thaly. Translated (from the 
German) by William Rushton. James Madden, Leadenhead Street. 

As regards works on military matters, since you intend to go 
thoroughly into the whole tine, I would cite the following in case 
you might consider one or another of them worth acquiring: 

Carrion-Nisas: Essai sur l'histoire générale de Uart militaire etc. Paris 
1824. 

Kausler: Kriegsgeschichte aller Volker. Ulm 1825. Worterbuch und 
Atlas der Schlachten. 1825 and 1831. (The only two general military 
histories. Said to be meagre.) 

Guerard: Encyclopadie der Kriegskunst. 2nd ed. Vienna 1833. 

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Handbibliothek für Offiziere tiber das Ganze der Kriegslehre fir 
Eingeweihte und Laien von einer Gesellschaft PreuSischer Of- 
fiziere. Berlin 1828. 

J.A.M.-r (Millerbacher): Das Kriegswesen der Romer, nach antiken 
Denkmalen geordnet von Ottenberger. Prague 1824. 

Lohr: Das Kriegswesen der Griechen und Romer. 2nd ed. Wurzburg 
1830. 

Blesson: Geschichte des Belagerungskriegs. Berlin 1821. 

Hoyer: Geschichte der Kriegskunst. Gottingen 1797. 

Chambray: Die Veränderungen in der Kriegskunst von 1700-1815. 
German. Berlin 1830. 

Stenzel: Geschichte der Kriegsverfassung Deutschlands, besonders im 
Mittelalter. Berlin 1820. 

Barthold: George v. Frundsberg. Hamburg 1833. 

Letters have arrived from Cluss which I shall send you as soon 
as I have shown them to Lupus and the little League.'*” 

As regards Weydemeyer, Cluss writes as follows’: 

‘Not long ago, after some goading on my part, Weydemeyer wrote that he 
would have to put serious pressure on Korff who was supposed to have sent off the 
50 Brumaires.’ Weydemeyer has, I believe, small sums owing to him from Korff 
and will therefore have charged him with the dispatch, and/or payment of the 
postal costs. 

‘The remaining 300 Brumaires ... not yet dispatched ... He claims that 500 
copies are still held at the printers as a security and he hasn’t yet been able to 
redeem them, etc. ... Financially, for one thing I cannot under any circumstances 
intervene just now, and for another I would not wish to do so even if I could. For 
time and again I have been told that such and such a sum would resolve 
everything, and time and again such and such a sum has been provided and 
resolved nothing. When the Revolution began, we. were told to have faith and send 
in advance-payments without delay. I at once sent subscriptions to the tune of 10 
dollars, which J, of course, subsequently lost... Later it was said that the periodical 
was being put on its feet again and | was to find 20 dollars to that end; 18 dollars 
went off forthwith, 15 dollars from me personally and 3 dollars subscriptions. 
Instead of being used to carry on the business, this went to pay for the same old stupid 
bag of tricks, i.e. for the first 2 issues which had been sent out at random. The 
Brumaire arrived. Weydemeyer in despair. I told him I would instantly contribute 
25-30 dollars if that would help, otherwise he was to send me the manuscript. Send 
me 25 dollars, he says; I do so. After a while it transpires that only 500 copies can 
be printed with the money available; no good, I tell him, how much more would it 
cost to print 1,000? 20 dollars, comes the reply, and the next day the money is 
already on its way. 

‘Now the poems*< arrive; they are to be printed in New York; when I insist that 
the nonsense must cease and the printing begin, I get the poems back, it having 
unfortunately proved impossible to print them just now in New York. I-at once 

@ Cluss to Marx, 5 August 1852.-> K. Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis 
Bonaparte. - © F. Freiligrath, ‘An Joseph Weydemeyer’, I and II. 

have them printed and bound for some 15 dollars (400 copies?) and send the stuff 
off in all haste so that it can be disposed of at the choral festival just then taking 
place in New York. They were touted round by one solitary vendor who is said to 
have actually disposed of 60 (!) copies. So the printing of the 2nd thousand (I had 
left the type set up), the money for which Weydemeyer had promised to provide as 
he had already informed me, was, of course, stopped; and in the same way, the 
whole business appears to have remained inert and lifeless in his hands ever since. 

‘I shall write and tell Weydemeyer that, in so far as I am financially involved in 
this affair, 1 want you to use it in Europe for further publications in the interests of 
the party, or in any other way you yourself think fit, hence that so far as my share in 
all this is concerned, to send no money to America. In the case of the poems, I 
alone am involved, and so I alone have the final say in the matter. 

‘I shall therefore stake everything on getting the stuff sent off.’ 

Isn’t that an exact replica of our Brussels-Westphalian aven- 
ture? ' Last week I wrote to F. Streit in Coburg about the printing 
of the Brumaire; he deals in articles of this kind.’ 

Apropos. No. 15° appeared in the Tribune. 

In St Louis, Heinzen is now figuring for a change as an 
‘aristocrat of the intellect’ (sic), ludicrous second-hand rehash of 
Feuerbach-Stirner; and since the Revolutionary League '” is going 
to pot, the ‘aristocrat of the intellect? proposes a ‘humanist’ union. 

In addition I have the following to report: 

On the 3rd, Kinkel and the coffre-fort? were duly divorced. 
Reichenbach deposited the money in the Bank of England in his 
own name. 

At this gathering Kinkel feigned ignorance of the meeting 
convoked by Goegg and hence challenged Imandt in public to 
read out in public the invitation he had received. On the 6th, 
however, Goegg, turning to Kinkel, remarked: ‘in accordance with 
the arrangement I made with you at your house’. Willich was not 
present. 

Hentze, the candidate, endorsed all his own remarks by adding: 
‘as a D. Phil. I ought to know. 

Goegg explained how his Revolutionary League |. provided a 
stay and support for Germans in America, 2. might, by 
influencing the elections, sway American policy and induce the 
United States to adopt a policy of intervention. On the material 
side, too, a start had been made. Contributions of one cent per 
week. Boxes in all public houses. Gottfried declared himself in 
agreement with all this. Only, he opined, contributions of a dollar 
would be preferable to contributions of a cent, no one in America 

@ Cluss says 1,000 in his letter. - > Helmich - © F. Engels, Revolution and Counter- 
Revolution in Germany, XV. - 4 strong-box 

having sufficient patriotic devotion to count up the cents. He also 
came out against Boxes. 
Quoth the great Kinkel, staring hard at Imandt the while: 
‘Despite all the calumnies that have been spread against-me, I can stand up with 

unruffled brow and say that I have never spoken ill of any exiled fellow 
citizen—not a single one.’* 

Consequence: Since Kinkel had no money, but only his esteemed 
person, to offer by way of dowry, the latter was spurned, despite 
all his boot-licking and _ self-humiliation. The eight dynasts 
organised themselves into a Revolutionary League off their own 
bat and without co-opting Kinkel. The malheureux!” 

Schmolze, a born painter, is said to have done a rather nice set 
of cartoons, Kinkel as King Lear and Willich as the Fool. Also a 
cartoon in which Willich, as a sloth, squats in a fruit-tree while Mrs 
Scharttner on the ground shakes the tree to dislodge him. 

Willich has been stupid enough to extend his ostracism to the 
honourable and elderly Mr ‘Schily’ and to expel him from his little 
League for all sorts of imaginary crimes. Schily is appealing to a 
general meeting. Today is the day of the ordeal. For his part 
Schily accuses Willich of ‘unmistakable insanity’, as a proof of which 
he will this evening produce a letter from Heise, Willich’s alleged 
friend in Liverpool, wherein Heise describes Willich as mentally 
deranged. 

Last week friend Jones came within an ace of losing his 
newspaper.° Every week a deficit. At odds with the committee '” 
and with the 2 citizens who have sg far been putting up the 
money. Sudden reprieve. MacGowan has taken over publication, 
will make good the weekly deficit, and Jones is now ensconced in 
the office of the old Northern Star. MacGowan has sacked Harney, 
and the idiot bought the old Star from him for £40. 

According to the Gazette Agricole, the next harvest in France will 
be '/3 BELOw THE average which in France, according to J. B. Say,= 
FAMINE.” In Germany a middling harvest. In England there is 
already an outflow of gold from the Bank for corn purchases. At 
the same time, wild speculation in the City. Last week, bankrupt- 
cies on the Stock Exchange. Finally, in North America, as I see 
from the New-York Herald, the wildest of wild speculation in 
RAILWAYS, BANKS, housing, unprecedented expansion of the credit 

4 Indirectly addressing to Marx in this way, Kinkel tried to justify himself in the 
face of the accusations moved against him, see this volume, p. 149. - > Poor 
thing! - © The People’s Paper -4 J. B. Say, Cours complet d’économie politique pratique, 
Paris, 1840, p. 394. 

system, etc. Is that not approaching crisis? The revolution may come 
sooner than we would like. Nothing could be worse than the 
revolutionaries having to provide bread. 

Your 
K. M.