[London,] 17 September 1853 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Frederic, 

You’re becoming damned taciturn. 

Since I was expecting your article yesterday, all I had done was 
to make up a heading from the most recent news and, since the 
letter didn’t come, one Jot of correspondence went by the board. 

I really must ask for your co-operation for the fortnight 
beginning today. For today Pieper is going, not into a monastery 
exactly, but into the German Hospital, a sort of medical prison, 
where he is to spend a fortnight or 3 weeks being thoroughly 
cured of the painful consequences of his carnal lust. Since I have 
in any case forfeited 3 or 4 articles through having to traipse off 
to that rotten Spielmann,” I must now write something every 
Tuesday and Friday so that the next bill I draw is not too paltry. 
There is a possibility of Freiligrath’s finding a business friend who 
will regularly discount them for me. 

If you can manage to do something in between times, I shall 
send you the other stuff to look through, in which case you will 
only have to preface or conclude it with the latest news you may 
have seen about Turkey in the Débats, say, or some particularly 
important telegraphic dispatch, before sending the stuff to 
Liverpool. 

I expect an article*”” from you for Tuesday.” 

I think it important that something be said about the position of 
the armies, etc. There’s a great deal of nonsense in the English 
papers, e.g. Omer Pasha is said to be crossing the Danube, etc. 

I have already sent off two articles about the commercial crisis, 1 
last Friday week about the Bank of England, its viscount and the 
effect of Peel’s Act, or rather intended effect. 1 last Tuesday on 
the price of corn, signs oF overproduction, etc.* 

a See this volume, p. 356. - > 20 September - « 9 September. K. Marx, ‘The 
Vienna Note.—The United States and Europe.—Letters from Shumla.— Peel’s 
Bank Acv’. - 4 13 September. K. Marx, ‘Political Movements.— Scarcity of Bread in 
Europe’. 

I think it important to have more details about the MANUFACTURING 
DISTRICTS, 

Enclosed something further by the Tribune man* and ‘on’ him 
by the Eprrors of the Tribune. It would seem, by the by, that he is 
not a Russian AFTER ALL, but A GERMAN, 

The abolition of the advertisement duty means that Jones’ 
advertisements now bring him in £3 a week—the paper” Is ARRIVING 
TO THE PAYING POINT. This could also provide Pieper with a source of 
income. 

When you write, you must also tell me about Lupus’ travels. I 
heard later that he didn’t push off from here until last Saturday.‘ 

FAREWELL, 

Your 

K. M. 

Enclosed another cutting from the worthy Neu-England-Zeitung’