{London,] 30 September 1853 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Frederic, 

Your piece on the war? is capital. I myself had serious misgivings 
about the westward advance of the Russian forces but did not, of 
course, dare TRUST TO MY JUDGEMENT in such matters. I have already 
written a whole series of srrixe articles,” produced at intervals 
throughout the 6 months during which the thing has been going 
on. Now, however, the affair has taken a new Turn. In the article 
where I used your strike-cenerauitis,” I have mentioned a host of 

a A. Jacobi, ‘Ueber den Untergang der Erde’. -> F. Engels, ‘The Russians in 
Turkey’. - © K. Marx, ‘English Prosperity—Strikes—The Turkish Question.— 
India’, ‘Russian Policy Against Turkey.—Chartism’, ‘Financial Failure of Govern- 
ment.— Cabs.—Ireland.— The Russian Question’, ‘Rise in the Price of Corn.— 
Cholera.—Strikes.— Sailors’ Movement’, ‘Panic on the London Stock Exchange.— 
Strikes’. - 4 K. Marx, ‘Panic on the London Stock Exchange.—Strikes’ (written: in 
co-authorship with Engels) (see this volume, p. 372). 

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STRIKE-LOCALITIES by name, also the Preston’! and Wigan *” affairs. I 
couldn’t get hold of any particulars about Manchester. I have 
depicted the manoeuvring in Preston (very briefly, mind you) 1. as 
an attempt by the manufacturers to use the operatives, whose 
demands are forcing the closure of the mits, to cover their retreat 
from over-production; 2. as an attempt tO STARVE THE OPERATIVES INTO 
SUBMISSION, 

As you can see, my HISTORY OF STRIKES goes no further than last 
Tuesday* and doesn’t touch on Manchester. 

You might, perhaps, expand somewhat the notes on yarn and 
cotton prices and, if possible, the price of coops, so that they 
amount to at least one paragraph of an article.*” 

In each article, besides the subject proper, I naturally have to 
follow step by step the Russian Notes and England’s Foreign Policy 
(and right brave it is!), since the jackasses in New York consider 
this to be of prime importance and, arter att, nothing is easier to 
write about than this business of High politics. 

Next Tuesday week I shall have finished an article on the 
‘Oriental Cuurcr’, and next Friday week the first of three articles on 
Denmark where next month the various assemblies of estates will 
be again taking the stage.*” 

Should there be any military Movement, I shall count on receiving 
immediate information from the Ministry of War” in Manchester, 
and the same applies to corrons and yarns which are wretchedly 
covered by the papers down here. 

Above all I want to slay the fellows with my pen, the moment 
being propitious, and if at the same time you keep me supplied 
with material, I can spin out the various themes over longer 
periods. What is more, without my secretary“ I feel a little nervous 
about my English. 

No regards to Lupus. 

Your 
K. M.