Manchester, 30 January 1858 

Dear Marx, 

Your two letters arrived together this morning. I enclose a fiver; 
unfortunately [’m very tight for money myself and Schramm 
touched me for five pounds at the beginning of January—in the 
circumstances there was absolutely no question of refusing, but in 
consequence I was even more broke. ‘Windham’? will be ready for 
Tuesday. 

Apropos, would you send me another copy of the B articles 
Dana asked for (both the original ones and those subsequently 
ordered) as I have mislaid mine. 

How goes it with ‘Camp’, ‘Catapults’ and ‘Caps’ (Percussion)? 

Well, the would-be assassins *”’ may not have bagged Bonaparte, 
but they caught K. Heinzen all right. .You will recall his 
bloodthirsty threats of destruction in 1848 and his big talk about 

a There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man’ 
(Sophocles, Antigone, Lines 339-40). - > F. Engels, “Windham’s Defeat’. 

the deadly weapons of modern science concerning which he, of 
course, knew nothing. Kossuth is a great man, but Kossuth forgot 
fulminating silver, etc. Eh bien, after this business we shall hear no 
more of fulminating silver. I said at once, judging by the appalling 
number of injured and relatively few dead, that the bombs had 
been overfilled and had therefore burst into a mass of small 
splinters, none of which had much force. The asses went about it 
with more stupidity than cunning. With a filling of ordinary 
powder the bombs would inevitably have had a much greater 
effect. Instead they cram in as much fulminating mercury as the 
things will hold, thereby producing a hail of small, relatively 
innocuous splinters. Dr Larrey confirms my view. So much FoR: 
Heinzen. 

On the 21st courant’ there was another attempt on Bonaparte’s 
life in the Bois de Boulogne, with a pistol; the fellow was arrested 
before he could pull the trigger. The affair has been hushed up. 
As soon as I can dispense with the relevant Guardian you shall 
have it. 

I shall send for Charras’ Cent jours Mightn’t we go in for 
literary criticism in America? An article on the subject would 
certainly be interesting and not difficult to do. 

Warm regards to your wife and children. 

Your 
F. E.