London, 16 October 1856 
9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, 
Haverstock Hill 

Dear Engels, 

After receipt of the Post Orrice order we moved out” and, for 
the first 2 weeks, had to do a frightful lot of running to and fro 
between here and town in order to put things more or less straight 
in the house. Hence my silence. 

a day of wrath 

Herewith an excerpt from a book by Mieroslawski.* As you 
know he’s not without esprit.” But there’s also much esprit de 
mauvais alot‘ in his writing, in particular a great deal of the style 
amphigourique which the French have been at such tremendous 
pains to acquire since they became ‘profound’ and ceased being 
superficial Voltairians. Also much of that enthusiastic unguent 
used by ‘unappreciated’ nationalities to glorify their passé.“ Hatred 
of Russia and even more of Germany; anti-Pan-Slavism but, on the 
other hand, free confederation of Slav nations with the Poles as the 
peuple Archiméde.”’ Distinct emphasis on social revolution in Poland 
as the basic condition of the political one; but seeks to show by 
means of historical deduction, which proves exactly the reverse, 
that orthodoxy lies in restoring the old agrarian communes 
(gmina=the Russian commune latinised). 

In the past few weeks I have been studying the question of 
silver in greater detail and shall in due course give you an account 
thereof. 

In my view Bonaparte will hardly be able to avoid the suspension 
OF CASH PAYMENTS and then, va la Galére!' 

Guardian received. More very soon. Otto has been pardoned. 

Your 
K. M. 

As regards the Urquhartites (who, until the week before last, 
with intervals, were reprinting my old stuff revised by me”) have 
made no progress at all as yet. However the matter must be 
decided before the week is out. Urquhart has been playing the 
oracle in The Morning Herald by disgorging these things, which 
are wholly new to him, as though they were long-cherished secrets 
of his. In the National-Zeitung the great Bucher—appropriating 
my very words—spoke of ‘interesting revelations’, but suppresses 
my name, giving the impression that they came from the English 
side. You can see how envious and irritating these scoundrels are.