[London,] 23 January 1858 

Dear Engels, 

I have received: 1. Copies of the Guardian; 2. C (‘Carabine’, 
etc.’), You have not told me whether you got my letter, together 
with an enclosure for Lupus, sent off a week ago today.’ 

Herewith. a letter from Dana which you must return as it has 
not yet been answered. One disagreeable consequence so far as I 
am concerned is that I am already considerably in the fellows’ 
debt, having miscalculated what was due to me and drawn a 
further amount after sending off ‘Cannon’.” The pay, by the by, 
isn’t Even A PENNY THE LINE, 

As regards the new B articles Dana is asking for—and for me 
the main thing is to pay off as quickly as possible what I have 
overdrawn on Appleton, otherwise I shall be unable to draw 
anything on the Tribune and hence be stone broke—they are, 
with one exception, taken from the list you drew up. As regards 
that one exception—“The History of the Bengal Resumption’—I suggest 
the most appropriate course would be tell Dana straight out it 
can’t be done. How get hold of the sources at such short notice? 
Since it ‘SHALL. BE SENT AT ONCE? and must be ‘As brief AS possisiz’, the 
work involved would be out of all proportion to the ray and it 
would simply prevent us from getting on with the other articles. 
What is your opinion? The military side is the more important, 
but it seems to me that the whole, whether military or political, has 
not yet reached the stage where it could be ‘sent ar onc’. 

I cannot recall the mistake is (rHE) BATTLE OF ALBUERA to which Dana 
refers.?” 

Freiligrath writes to say that the great Ernst Dronke has arrived in 
London from Paris, having left the latter place for the first time on 
account of the attempted assassination.*”! 

Salut. 

Your 

a Sce this volume, p. 250. 

There were some nice things from the Paris correspondent 
in The Manchester Guardian you sent me. How is. busi- 
ness in Manchester? Everything seems to be going better than 
expected.