{[London,] 28 October 1853 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Frederic, 

Mes remerciements pour les deux articles.* 1 fear you have been too 
biassed by Mr Smitt in favour of Russia’s military achievements. 
D’abord,' as regards the 1828-29 campaign, it was a wretched affair 
in the opinion of most contemporains; I base myself inter alia, on 
the report submitted to the Duke of Wellington by his ADC and 
published in The Portfolio." The fortresses were bought rather than 
stormed. In general, bribery played a major role in the campaign. 

a Marx used this word for French philistines. - > Good-bye and farewell. - © The 
original is kept in the Marx Memorial House in Trier. - 4 My thanks for the two 
articles (F. Engels, ‘Movements of the Armies in Turkey’ and ‘The Holy 
War’). - © F. Smitt, Geschichte des polnischen Aufstandes und Krieges in den Jahren 1830 
und 1831.- To begin with - 8 contemporaries - 5 F. R. Chesney, ‘Précis of a 
Report on the Russian Campaign of 1828 and 1829, drawn up for the information 
of the Duke of Wellington’, The Portfolio, No. 26, 20 July 1836. 

After passing through the Balkans, Diebitsch was not sure whether 
he had come to conquer or to be miserably cut off and captured. 
What saved him was bribery, this time of one of the Pashas in 
command, and the utter dissolution of THE Turkish ARMY. Russia began 
the war when the fleet had been destroyed off Navarino** and the 
Turkish army’s traditional organisation had been destroyed by 
Mahmud and no new one had yet been established. In any case, 
circumstances are different now. 

Over the past 2 weeks the Débats has been publishing articles on 
the campaigns of ’28-’29, which, however, I have not read. I shall 
look out further material at the library. 

Pieper has been out of hospital for a week—and is doubly 
occupied, 1. as correspondent of the Washington Union, arranged 
by Cluss and 2. as creek (from 9-5) at 25/- a weex with a crapaud* in 
the City. Hence of no further use to me. Tant mieux” for him. I’m 
glad he’s out of the mire. 

I am sending you the continuation of the Palmerston. Jones has 
asked me for the next instalment. I have sent an article for this once“ 
but with the proviso that he would get no more if he didn’t put an 
end to the abominable printing errors (this time glaring to the point 
of distortion). The manuscript was written very neatly. 

Rings, stricken by madness, has spent several days in the 
workhouse and is still in a critical condition. Drink was to blame, 
quorum magna pars the merry-making Lupus who debauched him 
with gin AFTER HE HAD shut uP His shop. Withal the man’s too 
full-blooded to remain idle and has not yet succeeded in finding 
any fresh occupation. It’s damnable the way the fellows all go mad 
on us. 

Herewith Heinzen’s tour de force. 

Your 
K. M.