[London,] 7 July 1854 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Engels, 

You must excuse me for not having acknowledged receipt of the 
£5 before. This was due to much trouble at home, since my wife is
leaving for Trier tomorrow, an undertaking which has called for 
indescribable efforts. 

Your article* arrived just when I myself was concocting a scrawl on 
Spain.” I shall therefore put your article by until Tuesday,° the more 
so since Pieper is available to act as my secretary on Fridays, while on 
Tuesdays I now have no one to do the writing. 

I had not yet had time to look at the poem. I shan’t be free till 
after 6, when I shall send you an answer either by telegram or city 
post. 

Your 
K. M.