[St. Hélier,] Jersey, 19 October 1857 
3 Edward Place 

Dear Marx, 

Herewith the satance of the old sins of omission, also the 
original notes on the Armada. I couldn’t quite decipher some of 
the names, which you will have to try and fill in.”** I am now 
going on to the Hisrory OF CANNON.” 

Schramm seems to me to be getting rather worse, though his 
condition changes from day to day. At ,Present he has Berger* 
with him, a philistine sent by his brother,” who has taken lodgings 
in the same house and to whom he is giving English lessons. He’s 
a dirty-minded old Prussian who tells lewd jokes devoid of wit 
about all the court rabble in Berlin, que le diable l’emporte!* 1 
haven’t seen friend Harney for a week. He’s awfully stupid and 
feels very COMFORTABLE indeed in his philistine role here, although 
even on his parer he is clearly subject to the owner’s censorship. 
He anticipates, of course, that sooner or later the English workers 
will do something or other, but that it won’t be at all in the 
Chartist line, and anyway what he says is so much theoretical hot 
air and he would undoubtedly detest being jolted out of his petty 
philistine agitation here. HE ts very Busy, BUT BUSY DOING NOTHING. His 
friend the crocer, who thrashed the French spy,* has been fined 
£5. 

Besides the nisrory or cannon, I intend to do a few of the shorter 
things and send them to you from time to time so that Dana may 
see that we’re keeping the ball rolling. But do send me those notes 
about which I wrote to you, and the list of military articles for D. 
I presume you got the letter containing the copy of the C list,?*? and 
also the article ‘Military Bridges’! sent off later. 

I have firmly resolved to return to Manchester in a fortnight’s 
time. Business has taken a very nasty turn and it’s important for 

» Engels means Hermann Buck. - > Rudolf Schramm - ¢ the devil take him! - 4 The 
Jersey Independent - ¢« Lemoine - f F. Engels, ‘Bridge, Military’. | 

me to be there. Moreover, my health is now good; yesterday, I 
spent 7 hours in the saddle, and I have also bidden farewell to 
virtue. 

Your 
F. E.