London, 9 April 1857 
9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, 
Haverstock Hill 

Dear Engels, 

You must excuse me for being so late in answering. For a
fortnight my wife has been in worse health than for many months
past, and there has been great trouble in the house. Be so good as
to let me have Dana’s letter back.

I am sending you through the parcels company a small bottle of 
eye lotion. Cornelius brought me a bottle of it from Paris, where 
he had had trouble with his eyes. For several weeks I had myself 
been suffering from inflammation of the eyes due to intensive 
work at night. The lotion put me right within a few days and will 
do you a similar service. All you have to do is put a few drops into 
the bad eye on getting up and on going to bed. 

Conrad Schramm has died in Philadelphia of a chest complaint. 
I hear that in New York the Neue Zeit announcing his death has 
published an obituary of sorts. I haven't yet seen it. 

The apparent improvement on the Stock Exchanges is again
petering out. Bank rate is rising again. Crédit mobilier* and
French rentes are again going down, while revelations of commer-
cial sharp practice by joint stock companies in London and Paris
are becoming increasingly frequent. In the latter place, I’m glad 
to say, the government is directly involved. You have, I sup- 
pose, read about the row between Péreire and Féline? I’d have 
copied it out for you had I not assumed that The Manchester
Guardian’s [woman] correspondent chronicles everything of that
nature. I now see the Paris Figaro from time to time, the only
real journal of the Empire; it has cast off all semblance of
respectability.

I don’t know whether I have already drawn your attention to 
the two new pieces of evidence against Pam. First, Herbert told his 
constituents in South Wilts’? that he had given orders for the 
bombardment of Odessa”; upon his resigning, Pam sent an order 
written with his own hand to spare it. Secondly, Russell told the 
City electorate” that Palmerston had given him written instructions
on how to conduct himself at the Congress of Vienna,’
instructions which Clarendon forbade him to make public and in
the execution of which little John so splendidly broke down. It’s
typical of old Pam to keep harping in his newspapers on Herbert’s
Odessa TREASON (it was Pam’s popular rag, the Advertiser, that first
drew attention to Herbert’s family ties with Vorontsov‘) and on
Russell’s Vienna Treason,'?

I shall search out more anti-Palmerstoniana for you. Pam’s
speech against Anstey (a fat pamphlet) ought to be in my 
possession if Pieper hasn’t pinched it from me. Lengthier works
are Parish, Diplomatic History of Greece and Urquhart, Central
Asia* On the first topic you might also read the expositions by
Thiersch” and Maurenbrecher‘ which came out in 1836 (?). (It’s a
long time since I set eyes on them.) Of all the Blue Books,** the one
that has impressed me most strongly is that on the second 
Syro-Turkish War.‘ 

I’ve only had 5 articles in The Free Press.°' Liebknecht, etc., have
filched them from me. However I’ll get them together for you. In
the last one I used the text of one of your articles, in which you 
speak of Peter I.'° I’ve only just completed the introduction. But 
at first the chaps dragged their feet for months. Later, they 
brought it out rather more quickly. But now, when the first 
payment is due, I dun them in vain. If they don’t do better on this 
point than hitherto, I shall have to sever the CONNECTION ALTOGETHER. 
They have given me a new contract, but what good is a contract to 
me if they don’t abide by it in puncto puncti‘? 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 

Regards to Lupus. Tell him that in Grimm! I have found the
scientific derivation of Farina, the Eau de Cologne manufacturer,
viz. Sanscrit: väri—Gen. värinas.