[London,] 16 February 1857 
9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, 
Haverstock Hill, N. W. 

Dear Engels, 

Enclosed a letter from Olmsted in reply to my inquiry. So this 
particular article wasn’t accepted.'*! However, even after this letter 
I believe that they will be glad to publish ‘Suis acainsr Watts’.* The 
question is, have you got the time to write it? No doubt we ought 
to try Putnam again before giving up altogether. At any rate it 
was exceedingly impertinent of that gentleman not to let me know 
what the position was until after 4 months. Since I shall in any 
case have to write to Olmsted, see if you can make out his 
Christian name from this letter. 

You will probably have had Miquel’s letter. Freiligrath tells me 
that, besides Ruge and Hess, Oppenheim and other disreputable 
good-for-nothings write for the Jahrhundert. 

Freiligrath requests you not to let the matter of Weerth remain 
dormant. Assuming that that Jew Steinthal has got his hands on 
Weerth’s diaries (about which the noble Campe has already written 
to Weerth’s brother’), there is the additional danger that, should 
Weerth’s relations get hold of them, they might in usum delphini‘ 
publish them amended and censored. It is to be hoped that 
Weerth’s brother will approach you direct. If the diaries eventually 
turn up, this would also mean that you could appeal to the 
philistines’ consciences. Incidentally, it is exceedingly mean | of 
Steinthal to have no more than bluntly notified the old woman ‘ of 
Weerth’s death, without any details and without either preamble 
or postscript. That haggler with his saccharine smirk! 

I have been rereading (but haven’t quite finished) your essays 
on Pan-Slavism, '' partly for my own edification, partly in order to 
note the passages which, in the event of a German version, would 
necessitate your referring to sources not readily available in 

a See this volume, p. 96. - > Karl Weerth - © Literally: for the use of the dauphin 
(the phrase was used in the second half of the 17th century to mark ‘expurgated’ 
editions of Latin authors intended for the French crown prince). - ¢ Wilhelmine 
Weerth 

England save at the British Museum. While thus engaged I 
discovered that the same unknown hand (provisionally I make so 
bold.as to ascribe it to the Polish renegade Gurowski) which wrote 
above my rejected Danusian principatiries articles,* “Tout ces chiffrés 
sont éxagérés’,” etc., etc. (nice French), has also adorned the 
Pan-Slavism articles with marginal glosses, viz.: 

ad‘ article I. At the end: £&. Cv’est ni bon. (What the £ is 
supposed to be (German C?) is beyond me.) (Nice French sentence! 
C'est ni bon. Period.) 

ad article IX. Written at the top: Changéz Vintroduction and, as 
heading: ‘Southern Slav?. 

Again, re the sentence, “By THIS LOGIC ETC. IT WOULD FOLLOW THAT THE 
HINboos ARE THE MOST YOUTHFUL PEOPLE ETC. he comments, “THIS DEDUCTION 
IS ILLOGICAL’. 

On the statistical survey of the Serbian race: ‘GERMAN (instead of 
German) INFLUENCES DESTROYED THEM IN OTHER BRANCHES UNDER Austrian 
pominion.” (Nice English!) Again, on your censure of Montenegrin 
BRIGANDAGE, ‘THIS (instead of ’TIs) NOT TRUP. 

Again, on ‘Croatia ETC. HAVE FOR CENTURIES PAST BEEN ANNEXED TO 
Huncary’, he comments, ‘But Huncary Is A COMPOUND OF THOSE VARIOUS 
LANDS’. 

The passage about the Mohammedan Bosnians, “They will HAVE TO 
BE EXTERMINATED, NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT’ is distorted in true Russian 
fashion by striking out the next passage: “THESE ARE, HOWEVER, BUT THE 
INTERNAL DIFFICULTIES OPPOSING THE ERECTION OF A SouTu SLAVONIC EMPIRE ETC.’ 

That these notes are all of Russian inspiration is obvious. 
Likewise, that no Frenchman could have written French with this 
kind of accentuation and such mistakes; likewise and no less, that a 
Yankee would never talk about ‘Southern Slavi’ and would express 
himself altogether differently. Hence I should say that the 
provenance of these notes is beyond doubt. And if, as Olmsted’s 
(Yankee) travelling companion maintained in front of myself, 
Freiligrath and Olmsted, Gurowski is in the direct pay of the 
Russian Embassy in Washington, the whole crisis with the Tribune 
becomes perfectly explicable. By the by, from the notes and 
deletions it transpires that originally it was still intended to publish 
a modified version of the articles on Pan-Slavism (up to and 
perhaps including No. 9), and that the idea was not completely 
abandoned until the fellow realised what we were driving at. 
Hence, too, Dana’s belated decision. 

a See this volume, pp. 68, 81. - > All these figures are exaggerated. - ¢ re - 4 It’s 
neither good. - ¢ Change the introduction 

Since, in the midst of my own crisis, it is very edifying for me to 
hear about crises, drop me a few lines telling me how things are in 
the industrial districts. Not at all well, according to the reports in 
the London papers. 

The two final volumes of Tooke’s History of Prices—from 1849 
onwards—have come out. It is, of course, a pity that in his 
unrelenting battle with the currency chaps and Peel’s Acts,’ the 
old gentleman is too exclusively concerned with the question of 
circulation. Still, it’s interesting at this particular juncture. 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M.