[London,} 23 September [1857] 

Dear Engels, 

Very many thanks for the letter and enclosure. 

I would, of course, very much like to see you before you leave. 
If at all feasible I shall come down to Brighton. The trouble is that 
the end of the quarter brings an accumulation of all the pirricuties 
one has been staving off throughout the summer. The main 
thing—and the only way out of my quandary—is to get on 
quickly with the Cyclopaedia. The coming of autumn also means 
redeeming this and that from the pawnshops. 

I hope to have done with the biographies (all of them) by next 
week.?" (Is there anything to be said about that jackass, Sir 
G. Brown?) 

I have begun a series in the Tribune on the Bonaparte régime’s 
deeds of financial derring-do.?'° To this I devote the days when 
there is no Indian news. I should like also to have a personal 
discussion with you about India, map in HAND. Up till now I have 
always managed instinctively to hit the nail on the head. But soon 
it will be time for me to provide a kind of general military summary 
of the affair. 

A few days ago, on my way to the Museum,’ I came such a 
purler that my forehead is still complaining. 

I trust you are taking iron. A day or two ago I was talking to Dr 
Lichtenberg at the German hospital, a very knowledgable little 
chap. He said that it was indispensable in after-treatment. 

Your 
K. M.