{[London,] 8 July 1853 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Engels, 

Dr Jacobi, the bearer of this note, was one of the accused at the 
‘communist trial in Cologne’. 
I’m at a loss to understand whether your continued silence is 

due to illness, pique, overwork or what. 

2 But we shall see. - » uttermost -¢ kK. Heinzen’s pamphlet Mord und Freitheit. d See this volume, p. 331. - © K. Marx and F. Engels. “The Rocket Affair—The 
Swiss Insurrection’; F. Engels, ‘Political Position of the Swiss Republic’. 

13* 

Yesterday I drew £24 on Dana at Spielmann’s in Lombard 
Street; Spielmann will pay me in 5 weeks as soon as the bill is 
returned. In the meantime I shall have another very bad spell to 
go through, the more so since a number of valuable things now in 
pawn will have to be repledged or else they will be forfeited, and 
that is, of course, impossible dans un moment when the wherewithal even for les choses les plus nécessaires is lacking. However, I’m 
now well-accustomed to being in the soup and all that that entails. 

In any case write and tell me why you're not writing. I hope, ar 
ALL EVENTS, that you are not ill. 

Your 
K. M. 

{On the back of the letter} 

Friedrich Engels. 48 Great Ducie Street, Manchester 

back of the letter) in Der Briefwechsel ; : : : 
zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 1, Published in English for the first 
Stuttgart, 1913 and in full in: Marx and time 

Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, 
Vol. 28, Moscow, 1962