MARX TO ENGELS” 

[London,] 22 September 1856 
28 Dean Street, Soho 
Dear Engels, 

I would have acknow.epcep your last letter before this, but for 
asout a fortnight past the whole day from morn till night has been 
spent in search of lodgings. In no circumstances could we remain 

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in the old hole. At last we found a place—a whole house which we 
have to Furnish ourselves. It is 9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, 
Haverstock Hill, Hampstead Road. Rent £36. We are to move in 
on 29 September; this week we have to furnish it. We are in 
something of a quandary, as we have asour £26 to pay out in 
town, and a great deal more for the new set-up. I.e. we are short 
of £10-£15—if only for the time being, since there is still a 
sizeable sum due to my wife from her brother* in Berlin as a 
result of the Trier legacy.% Yesterday he wrote to say that he 
couldn’t send the money because the Lower Silesian Railway 
Bonds in which the capital due to my wife is invested could be 
sold dans ce moment” only at a considerable loss. As M. le Ministre 
sadly remarks: 

‘It is, to be sure, an unfavourable moment just now, since all genuine securities 
such as these have fallen sharply as a result of frenzied speculation in Crédit 
mobilier #5 and limited liability companies.’ 

If you can supply part of what is wanted, I think I can manage 
the remainder with the help of the pawnshop until the money 
arrives from Berlin. The worst of it is that there’s no time to be 
lost. 

I was terribly affected by the news of Weerth’s death,” which I 
found hard to believe. Freiligrath, too, has already written to me 
about an obituary. But I must confess that I can’t think of a likely 
paper in Germany. The only possibility might be an obituary in 
the Tribune until the times permit us to do something bigger and 
better. WHat IS YOUR OPINION? 

Today I have been invited to dine with the Putnam’s chap‘ who 
is over here again. I don’t know whether I shall go. My poor 
spoken English might put me to shame. 

The Tribune has returned me the unpublished articles. These 
are, ALL IN ALL, Pan-Slavism'' and my articles on the Danusian 
principatitigs.” Mr Dana says in his letter that, if I cannot place the 
things elsewhere, they will be legally responsible for any ‘Loss 
incurred, since they failed to register their objections soon 
enough. In the opposite case, they expect to get part of their 
expenses back. Nous verrons.‘ 

Bruno Bauer is bringing out 2 volumes of England.” No doubt 
he will write at length about his cher frére’s* picstry. I don’t know 
what else he has seen in England. 

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Pieper, whom I threw out on my wife’s return, found his way 
back and settled in again 2 days later which, just now, is far from 
pleasant. When I move into our new home, I shall leave him 
behind, safely installed on my surety in the little hole you know in 
Dean Street. 

A Prussian amnesty is expected on 15 October. Otto’s mother 
died leaving 2,000 talers; these were confiscated by the Prussian 
government to pay the ‘costs of the Cologne trial’.” 

Strohn was here last Friday. The fellow has put on an enormous 
amount of weight, in consequence of which his spirits seem to 
have improved somewhat at the expense of his wits. Nor is his 
expression now so wry—benevolent, RATHER. 

I have heard all sorts of details concerning Heine, recounted to 
my wife in Paris by Reinhardt. Shall write about these at length 
some other time. For the present only that 

‘Eight had barely struck, yet she 
Was quaffing wine with laughter free’ 

came true LITERALLY in his case. While his corpse was still in the 
mortuary—on the day of the funeral—the maquereau” of Mathilde 
the mild, angelic child, did in fact appear on the doorstep and 
fetch her away. The worthy ‘Meissner’, who doled out such sloppy 
rubbish about Heine to the German public,° was paid in cash by 
‘Mathilde’ to sing the praises of this trollop who had tormented 
poor Heine to death. 

But now for another story about Moses Hess. That lad’s fame 
WAS DUE TO A GREAT part—TO Sazonov. When Hess and the Moses 
woman ° arrived in Paris, this Russian was in very sore straits, very 
down at heel, without money or credit and consequently very 
plebeian and revolutionary and receptive to ideas of world 
subversion. Sazonov heard that Moses was not without ‘ducats’. He 
therefore took his stand behind Moses and in front of the Moses 
woman. The latter he bedded, the former he extolled as a GREAT 
LITERARY LUMEN, putting him in touch with the editorial boards of 
reviews and newspapers. Vladimir,° or course, had a finger in every 
pie and a foot in every door. Thus he extracted enough ducats 
from the tight-fisted. Moses to enable him to ‘shine’ again and to 
put out decoys for further credit. And with these Sazonov enticed 
a rich old Jewess with whom he entered into kosher wepiocx. From 
then on, however, he became a man of fashion again and turned 

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his back on Moses, declaring him to be A VERY COMMON AND SUBORDINATE 
reLLtow, The Moses woman, however, was heartlessly abandoned 
and she is now running round Paris, scolding and cursing and 
telling anyone who will listen about the perfidious Muscovite’s 
betrayal. Such, in a manner of speaking, is the story of the 
Grandeur et Décadence de la Maison Moses.* 

Have you seen Golovin’s paper, Russia etc., now appearing in 
London? 

Faute de moyens> L’Homme has temporarily ceased publication. 
La Nation has ceased to exist. The only thing still in the same ting, 
though much poorer, is Le National. 

Kindest regards to Lupus. 

Your 
K. M.