[London,] 5 June 1856 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Frederic, 

I leave for Scotland at the end of this week, and shall come on 
to you from there after an interval of 6 days, but will of course 
give you prior notice. Should you write to me during this week, 
address the letters ‘C. Marx, care or P. Imandt, 29 Cowgate, 
Dundee’. There was a twofold reason for my decision to come to 
- you via Scotland: 

1. Medical, because I know that the sea-voyage will put me to 
rights and it was only the day before yesterday that I got rid of my 
rheumatism. Moreover, there have been other unpleasantnesses, 
including excessive bleeding at stool. I have, of course, also 
consulted my surgeon. 

2. Pieper. He will accompany me to Scotland and then return to 
London. Had I not agreed to this arrangement, the lad—he 
obtained the money for the trip from his former pupil, 
A. Rothschild—was fully determined to make his way to Paris on 
a false passport, allegedly with the intention of proceeding from 
there to Geneva on foot. You will realise what a strange and 
compromising end. such AN EXPEDITION LIKELY WAS TO ARRIVE AT. 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M.