London, 7 December 1855 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Frederic, 

Jones does not appear to be in London. At least, I haven’t had 
an answer, either oral or written, to an urgent written enquiry.°” 
Thus, since my arrival here, I have been incarcerated within 4 
walls which, after all, I can’t spend the whole day haranguing. But 
just now it would be too risky to venture out of doors. 

The document’ did not go off to the Union Bank until the day 
before yesterday. The delay was caused by all sorts of little things. 

No reply yet from America, i.e. New York. The gentlemen 
would appear to be ‘deliberating’.” No letter from Washington, but 

a Presumably concerning Mrs Marx’s inheritance (see this volume, p. 526). - > See 
next letter. 

a Wecher and with it a note, patently by Cluss, attacking 
Schimmelpfennig. Alas, I used up the Wecker during an 
unconsidered moment in a place where ‘hard words, soft paper, 
etc.’ It contained the assertion that the Germans in America were 
Utilitarians and pursued ‘bread-and-butter’ because ‘Mr Marx is 
an economist and an abstruse one’. But in Mr Marx’s case this 
could be attributed to the ‘Old Testament’. ‘By a well-known trick’ 
he had ‘turned “our relations” into a philosophical system’. That 
thoughtful young Germans in America should follow his lead was 
attributable to the fact that Germans are accustomed ‘to echo 
clever writers belonging to the nation of the Old Testament etc.’ 

Since asour the time of my return here, the Advertiser has been 
the arena for a cockfight between Herzen and an anonymous 
antagonist. His antagonist reproaches him with being a humbug 
and having passed himself off as a kind of Russian Silvio Pellico.* 
Even the title of his book ” is said to be a lie, inasmuch as he has 
never been in Siberia, etc. Feeble reply from Herzen”: the title was 
humbug on the publisher’s part, he [Herzen] had not been 
responsible for it and had immediately protested in the Globe,‘ etc. 
against the attributes wrongly ascribed to him, etc. Whereupon his 
antagonist came forth again (yesterday) and gave evidence of fresh 
lies, also in respect of the Globe.’ Besides this attack, however, 
there was also a prrencr put up by an Englishman *. Even if Herzen 
had not been in Siberia and was no Russian Silvio Pellico, his book 
was nevertheless amusing, an innocuous book: *‘an honest man, 
look you, and soon dasht! He is a marvellous good neighbour in 
sooth; and a very good bowler; but, for Alisander, alas, you see, 
how ‘tis.’*‘ Finally, the tus-rus paper, as is its wont, declared that the 
contest was becoming too personal, etc., was now over and closed 
its columns to it. At all events this skirmish—even though the 
assailants were hardly brilliant—will do Herzen a great deal of 
harm in the eyes of the Cocknevs, 

Lina” has informed me of some fresh details concerning the 
Cologne trial. The list of jurymen given in my pamphlet’ quite 

4 “To the Editor of The Morning Advertiser’ signed ‘One who had been deceived’, 
The Morning Advertiser, 29 November 1855. - & A. Herzen, ‘My Exile in Siberia. To 
the Editor of The Morning Advertiser’, The Morning Advertiser, 1 December 
1855. -° A. Herzen, ‘To the Editor of the Globe’, The Globe and Traveller, 25 
October 1855.-4 ‘Mr Herzen’s Case’ (letter signed ‘deceived’), The Morning 
Advertiser, 6 December 1855. -* [E. Reeve,] “Yo the Editor of The Morning 
Advertiser’ signed ‘Content and not deceived’, ibid. - £ Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s 
Lost, V, 2. - § An Editors’ Statement was published in The Morning Advertiser on 6 
December 1855. -» Caroline Schéler - i K. Marx, Revelations Concerning the Com- 
- munist Trial in Cologne.