London, 14 December 1852 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Engels, 

Like you, I have been suffering all this while from piles. But this 
time they did not, in my case, reach the ‘perfidious’ stage, since 
they luckily occurred during the time of lean kine. If necessary 
you should use leeches. C’est le grand moyen." 

The money arrived a week ago yesterday. 

From the following copy of a letter from Schabelitz jnr. you will 
see how things stand with the Revelations Concerning the Communist 
Trial in Cologne. 

‘Basle, 11 December 1852 

‘Dear Marx, 

‘I received the manuscript intact day before yesterday, and today am already 
going through the first sheet of proofs. The pamphlet is SPLENDIDLY set in a 
completely new type and will appear in 16mo. We shall get the proofs as best we 
can. The whole will amount to 70-80 printed pages and we could, I think, fix the 
price at 10 silver groschen per copy, since part at any rate of the edition (2,000 
copies) is likely to be confiscated. The main consignment will go to the Rhine 
Province. I feel sure the pamphlet will create a tremendous sensation, for it is a 
masterpiece. There were four of us reading through the manuscript, two highly 
competent and discriminating men’ 

(do you suppose Schabelitz numbers himself among the 
‘competent’?) 

‘and we were all unanimous in our praise of it. It certainly constitutes a 
“memorial” to the Prussian government. 
‘With kind regards to the Marx party. 

Yours 
J]. Schabelitz’ 

This last is an allusion to certain misgivings of mine lest Schabelitz 
should take offence at the rough treatment meted out to the 
Willich-Schapper party, to which he himself plus ou moins” belonged. 

a That’s the drastic means. - > more or less 

Secrecy being all-important if the thing is not to be confiscated as 
soon as it reaches the German border, I have been putting it about 
here that a pamphlet on the Cologne affair is to appear in America. 

In order not to overburden you in your present haemorrhoidal 
condition I got Pieper to translate tant bien que mal* a critique of 
Disraeli’s budget” written for Dana and it went off to America last 
Friday. 

Excuse me for not writing more this time. I have the most infernal 
headache. 

Your 
K. Marx