{London,] 10 January 1854 

Dear Engels, 

Last evening Urquhart sent me from Newry (Ulster) a speech 
which I got my wife to copy out, then added a word or two at the 
beginning and the end, and thus produced an article.* So I shall 
cancel yours this Friday.” Should there be any further mciwenrs that 
belong here,° perhaps you would be so good as to advise me of them 
by Friday morning so that I can give the stuff the finishing touches. 

The whole family, from a to o, is still ill. 

The enclosed is from Cluss. I shall send you the other part of it 
next time, when I shall be writing at greater length. 

That swine Tucker has just sent me a message. The first edition 
(50,000 cores) of ‘Palmerston’ is sold out. Now the gentleman 

a K. Marx, ‘fhe Western Powers and Turkey’. - » 13 January - © The reference is 
to the subjects dealt with in Engels’ ‘The European War’. 

sends word—he used not to be so condescending—that I should 
revise the thing for the second edition.“ Write at once and tell 
me what you advise me to do. 

Your 
K. M. 
Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXII, . . , s 
Moscow, 1929 Published in English for the first 
time