{London,] 18 July 1853 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Engels, 

The day before yesterday I got a letter from Lassalle, who is 
now in a state of suspense, imagining letters have been inter- 
cepted, etc. It would have been good had you advised me whether 
or not the parcel had gone off to him.° Lassalle is still the only one 
who dares correspond with London, and we must therefore be 
careful not to put him off. So I would ask you to let me know 
what the position is about the parcel. The time of its dispatch is of 
importance to me in another way, i.e. because upon it depends the 
time of the Return. 

The last mail brought my wife a most friendly and obliging 
letter from A. Dana‘*"’ in which he states that he cannot possibly 
advise us of a business house in London and that ar ALL INSTANCES 
bills drawn by me will be promptly honoured. He says that my 

4 What about? - © See this volume, p. 350. 

articles are ‘HIGHLY VALUED BY THE PROPRIETORS OF THE TRIBUNE AND THE PUBLIC’, 
and sets no limit on the quantity we send him. 

In the debate on advertisement duty ‘'?—about a fortnight ago, I 
think—Mr Bright was loud in his praises of the New-York Tribune 
and gave an analysis of one of its numbers*—the very one 
containing my article on the budget.” This is what he said about it: 

* ‘From Great Britain there is an elaborate disquisition on the Right 
Honourable Gentleman's budget, doing him justice in some parts, but not in 

others, and doing certainly, as far as the Manchester School 63 was concerned, no 
justice whatever.’ * 

As regards Jacobi, you must not allow yourself to be deterred by 
the gaucherie and inexperience of a 23-year- -old stripling from the 
District of Minden who has spent 2 years in jug. He has a good 
background. I have read his doctoral dissertation *” and was ‘much 
PLEASED WITH IT’, 

Your 
K. M. 

Jones has held some very important meetings which have even 
attracted the attention of the bourgeois press.’