Manchester, 7 March 1856 

Dear Marx, 

Much obliged to you for your exhaustive letter ad Slavica* 
Eichhoff is already known to me as a philological quack who has 
actually out-quacked Klaproth (who did know something). I shall 
look into the business of the Goths in Igor”? as soon as I have got 
the book. However, it has been established that a number of Goths 
remained in the Crimea until the 10th, and possibly the 11th, 
century; at least they figure as Goths in Byzantine [sources]. Could 
you let me know the title and price of Hanka and Swoboda’s 
Bohemian anthology?” It is sure to be highly uncritical, for they 
are both complete asses.—Polish folk songs were published 
somewhere or other during the 40s.—I have found quotations 
from Gétze, Wladimir,” etc., in Grimm’s translation of Wuk’s 
Serbische Grammatik with the comment ‘unfortunately without the 
Russian text’. Kapper is a Prague Jew who_ published his 
Südslavische Wanderungen in the Bohemian constitutionalist paper ‘ 
in 1848/49. He’s a writer of belles lettres, but whether his 
translations are any good I couldn’t say—j’en doute cependant.’ All 
the Serbian wedding songs have been translated by the Jakob 
woman.” The political works you mention on the Hungarian and 
Turkish Serbs might be worth looking at if they are in the 
Museum.’ 

The Neue Preussische Zeitung isn’t available in Manchester, but I 
followed the Pfeil business in the Kélner and the Augsburger and 
derived much joy from it. However the penitent Leaver in the 
N. Pr was, of course, new to me; really too delightful, the sudden 
discovery that despite all the feudal gewgaws, nobility and 
bourgeoisie are today au fond' one. 

What you say about Austria in regard to the Slavs and 
Protestantism is perfectly right. Fortunately a very strong form of 

« on things Slavonic - » See this volume, p. 20. - ¢ probably the Constitutioneiles 
Blatt aus Béhmen-“ 1 doubt it, however. -€ Therese Albertine Luise von 
Jakob-Robinson (pen-name: Talvj), who published the collection Volkslieder der 
Serben. - £ the British Museum Library - 8 The Kélnische Zeitung and the Allgemeine 
Zeitung - 4 ‘Den Streitenden’, Neue Preufische Zeitung, No. 54, 4 March 1856. - 
i basically 

Protestantism has survived in Slovakia, and has greatly contributed 
to the inaction of the Slovaks against the Hungarians,” while in 
Bohemia every serious national movement other than the pro- 
letarian will in addition receive a strong admixture of Hussite 
historical memories which in turn will weaken the specifically 
national element. Pity about the Slovenian peasants who fought so 
splendidly in the 15th century. 

I shall read about the Kars affair. What is Swan’s piece called? 

The course taken by the Seileriad will assuredly please everyone 
except Liebknecht and the creencrocer. An unpleasant whiff of the 
cesspit. 

Lassalle. It would be a pity about the fellow because of his great 
ability, but these goings-on are really too bad. He was always a 
man one had to keep a devilish sharp eye on and as a real Jew 
from the Slav border was always to exploit anyone for his own 
private ends on party pretexts. And then his urge to push his way 
into polite society, de parvenir, if only for appearance’s sake, to 
disguise the greasy Breslau Jew with all kinds of pomade and 
paint was always repulsive. However all these were simply things 
which made it necessary to keep a sharp eye on him. But if he gets 
up to the kind of tricks that will actually result in his changing 
parties, I can’t blame the Düsseldorf workers for the hatred they 
have conceived against him. I shall go and see Lupus this evening 
and put the matter to him. None of us ever trusted Lassalle but 
we did, of course, protect him against stupidities emanating from 
H. Burgers. To my mind, everything should be allowed to 
proceed in the manner you prescribed for the Dusseldorfers. If he 
can be induced to commit a direct and overt act against the party, 
then we shall have him. But as yet there would seem to be none of 
that and in any case a row would be quite out of place. 

The business of the Hatzfeldt woman and the 300,000 talers* 
was quite new to me. I imagined she was simply receiving 
something monthly or yearly. He can never be forgiven for having 
saved Hatzfeldt from the black and yellow jacket.’ I shall come 
back to the other matters. Your 

F. E.