M[{anchester,] 18 October 1852 

Dear Marx, 

Herewith the remainder of the recent article.” Yesterday I also 
received the next one.“ You can at once dispatch via LIVERPOOL PER 
UNITED STATES MAIL STEAMER the piece I am posting you today; the Pacific 
sails on Wednesday morning. You will be getting some more on 
Friday“ 

You really must stop making your articles so long. Dana cannot 
possibly want more than 1-1'/, columns, it would be too much for 
one number. I shall again have to split this new article, but it’s 
difficult to do and I don’t yet know where. Five-7 pages in your 
wife’s handwriting is quite enough and if you give more in one 
article, Dana won’t even thank you for it. 

Burgers and Roser, and perhaps Otto and Nothjung likewise, 
seem to me pretty well done for. There doesn’t appear to be 
anything at all against Daniels, Becker or Jacobi, and I hope that 
these at least will get off. Becker has extricated himself with great 
effrontery. The more these are exonerated the greater, I think, 
will be the zeal with which the judges and jury will set about the 
compromised men; the injured bourgeoisie and the injured State 
want their victims. 

The edges of the seals on all the letters I am getting from you 
show signs of having been gone over with a hot iron but, so far as 
I can judge, pour le roi de Prusse“ The gum on the envelope 
prevents them from getting inside. 

Weerth is here, has brought me the parcel, and sends his 
regards to you all. Szemere’s manuscript on Kossuth is far better 
than the one on Gérgey—he’s a match for Kossuth. I have not yet 

4 Barely legible in the original. -> K. Marx, ‘Political Consequences of the 
Commercial Excitement’. - © 22 October - 4 Hermann Becker - © literally: for the 
king of Prussia; figuratively: in vain