{[London,] 26 August 1854 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Engels, 

My wife got back on Wednesday,’ quite well. In the Fatherland, 
she tells me, everyone is down in the dumps on account of the 
‘uncertain conditions’. : 

I cannot imagine what has become of Cluss. The fellow hasn’t 
written for months. Perhaps it’s too hot over there. 

It is a very good thing that you are rid of Heise. I don’t see that 
a ‘loafer’ of this sort can be of any interest. I have not, of course, 
seen Imandt’s correspondence with Dronke and Heise, but I do 
know that, if he takes part in their childish nonsense, he does so at 
most in a ‘theoretical’ sense. Down here, Imandt lives the life of a 
sober, hard-working citizen. 

I have heard from Lassalle who announces triumphantly that 
the Hatzfeldt woman’s 7, or rather 8, years’ war is now over.*5 
Enfin!” ‘Victory’ for the old woman, who would appear to have 
emerged from the campaign with her virtue and, what is more, 
her money bags, ‘vierge.* Lassalle now intends to move his domicile 
to Berlin, but has already heard talk about difficulties with the 
police. 

Meyer writes to tell me that the trial of the Berlin de- 
magogues*™ (in which Gottfried’s Gottfried played a part) has 
been quashed by the court in Berlin (which, he doesn’t say), 
‘because Hentze, the principal witness for the prosecution, was 
“questionable”’, Qu’en dis-tu?* 

I have also had a letter from Miquel in Paris. He intended to 
come here but first he had cholera and then a haemorrhage, 
whereupon his doctors suggested that he had better drop the idea 
of sea travel and make. for home overland with all dispatch. Bad 
luck. 

Cherval, who under the name of ‘Cramer’—this time the real 
name was the pseudonym—had diverse experiences in Switzer- 
land, inter alia engraving plates for Mr Vogt, who had taken him 
under his wing, is now living in Paris. I have his address. 

a 23 August -> At last! - © intact -4 What do you think of that? 

Daniels has been seriously ill for months and it seems doubtful 
whether he’ll pull through. 

Reports, particularly in the Débats, suggest that there is a state 
of splendid anarchy in Spain. So far as I can gather from the 
papers, the Polish and Hungarian émigrés in the Turkish Asiatic 
army do nothing but engage in mischief, place-seeking and petty 
intrigues. Toujours les mémes.* . 

Vale faveque.” 

Totus tuus‘ 
K. M.