{[London,] 8 August 1854 

Dear Frederic, 

I have duly received your war ‘osservations’* and incorporated 
them IN TODAY'S LETTER. 

If you can possibly see your way to getting hold of some money 
for me I would urgently request you to do so. The £11 extra 
expenditure incurred over the past 6 weeks has plunged me into 
the utmost destitution, Moreover, Pieper, who is sans sou, has been 
living and eating here all that time and will certainly be staying for 
another 2-3 weeks. C'est dur 

Did you see in the papers that the 2 Turkish officers sent to that 
‘great’ democrat Shamyl Bey by the Asiatic army were accom- 
panied by Cotone, Bangya? 

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

time 

to his confederate and to share with him common counsel and common 
responsibility and common defence. We have jointly determined that whoever shall 
enter our commune and give us his aid, either by reason of flight or for fear of his 
enemies or for some other offence ... shall be allowed into the commune, for the 
gate is open to all; and if his lord had unjustly withheld his chattels and does not 
wish to detain him lawfully, we shall see that justice is done.’ 

a F. Engels, ‘The Attack on the Russian Forts’. - > K, Marx, ‘Evacuation of the 
Danubian Principalities—-The Events in Spain-—-A New Danish Constitution.— 
The Chartists’. - © penniless - 4 It is hard. 

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