[London,] 18 August 1853 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Engels, 

Lupus will probably obtain a good post in Liverpool. In which 
case he will go there via Manchester. The snag is that he won’t be 
paid until the end of the quarter. However, he hopes that you and 

a New-York Daily Tribune, No. 3761, 6 May 1853. -> K. Marx, ‘Riot at Constan- 
tinople—German Table Moving—The Budget’. - © Gladstone - 4 J. Bright, 
Speech in the House of Commons on 1 July 1853, The Times, No. 21470, 2 July 
1853. 

Strohn between you may be able to help him. Has Strohn 
returned? 

Needless to say, that mischief-monger Dronke is writing the 
most pompous letters to all and sundry, e.g. to Imandt, saying that 
‘he has made arrangements for Lupus’ emigration to America’. 
Entre nous* I should say the little shop-assistant, anxious to inflate 
his own importance at small cost to himself, has given Lupus to 
understand that it was he rather than you who took the matter in 
hand. At least 1 thought I could detect a certain chilliness towards 
Manchester on THE part or Wolff. Dronke is cancan” incarnate, No 
DOUBT ABOUT THAT. Experto crede, etc. 

You absolutely must at once send Pieper at least sufficient to buy 
himself a coat and trousers. Shabby as he now is, he cannot 
possibly take advantage of opportunities that come his way, 
however favourable. He has become unpresentable. Moreover, you 
promised him this when [you] left.‘ He’s putting a brave face on 
his misfortunes. But there’s a limit to everything. 

[I have] been particularly unlucky over money transactions. I 
now have current bills on America—two of them—amounting to 
£42 and yet cannot command above 42 farthings, though having 
to provide means of subsistence not [only] for myself but also for 
Pieper. The first bill of £24 I gave to Mr Spielmann; he told me 
to come back in five weeks’ time. That was seven weeks ago. 
Besides, this wretched traipsing to and from the City invariably 
takes up my Mondays and Thursdays, the very days when I have 
to be preparing Tuesday’s and Friday’s articles. Each time 
Spielmann turns me away with the remark, uttered in Jewishly 
nasal tones: ‘Nah nahtice yet.’ In the case of such ‘small’ amounts, 
he says, his correspondents write only at their convenience, and, if 
I had needed the money straight away, I should have said 
beforehand that I would pay the postage for a special letter, etc., 
etc. This means daily unpleasantnesses, not only for me but for 
my wife who, counting on the prompt arrival of the money, had 
given definite promises to sundry creditors, and now the curs are 
laying siege to the house. Meanwhile, I am writing away like the 
devil. It would be fine if you could send me an article or two in 
between whiles, thus giving me the time to write something better. 
*/4 of my time is taken up chasing after Pennies. 

Heise is here just now; as a person the fellow’s not at all bad. 
Mr Kossuth is presently making a fool of himself as correspondent 

4 Between ourselves - > gossip - © Experto crede Roberto.—Trust Roberto who 
has had experience (from a comic poem by Antoine Arena). 

of the Daily New-York Times. In the Advertiser 4 letters by 
D. Urquhart on the eastern question* contained much that was 
interesting, despite quirks and quiddities. We Have BEEN STRIKING 
against Jones for the past two weeks. 

Your 
K. M.