[London,] 21 September 1858 
9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, 
Haverstock Hill 

Dear Frederick, 

You must exercise your customary forbearance and excuse my 
long silence. The indisposition from which I was suffering even 
before leaving Manchester again became chronic—persisting 
throughout the entire summer—so that any kind of writing costs 
me a tremendous effort. For the same reason my manuscript” is 
only now about to go off (in 2 weexs), but there will be 2 instalments 
at once, Even though I had nothing to do but correct the style of 
what had already been written, I might sometimes sit for hours 
before getting this or that phrase right. For azour 8 pays, by the by, 
{ have been much better and on the whole I find the cooler time 
of year more beneficial. Moreover, there is every prospect that, 
with my mother’s help, I shall be able to put my domestic affairs 
entirely in order and also start to take Horse exercise again. The 
latter will be my prime concern, as soon as the susiness has been 
attended to. 

Meanwhile I have been writing very regularly for the Tribune, as 
I have no desire to make these chaps a gift of any money. 

Find out from Lupus or (directly or indirectly) from Borchardt 
whether they know a Mrs von Paula (might sign herself Paulaw) 
who once lived in Breslau.‘ If so, I have something curious to tell 
you. 

a K. Marx, ‘To the Editor of the Neue Zeit’. - > A Contribution to the Critique of Political 
Economy - < Wroclaw 

Re Bangya, I had in my possession (but, alas, only for a few 
hours) some material relating to him—letters from Constantinople 
as well as cuttings from the Constantinople papers. The excerpts 
in The Free Press don’t give such a clear idea of the thing.’ It’s the 
affaire of the ‘Cur of the dynasty’? all over again. Kossuth would 
appear to be ditectly compromised. I have now summonep him in 
the Tribune To DECLARE HIMSELF! 

Apropos. I’ve had an amusing experience with the Tribune. By 
way of evaluating the ‘Report of the Commirree’? on the late crisis I 
sent the paper several articles specifically relating to banking, 
CURRENCY, etc., which they published as veapers.”*' Along comes a 
BANKER, a self-styled ‘ BULLIONIST’, and writes a letter to the Tribune‘ in 
which he says 1. that never has so COMPREHENSIVE A summary Of the 
whole subject been Pennep, etc., but 2. raises all kinds of objections 
and challenges the editors to reply. So reply the poor pevis must 
needs do‘ and inpeep very sap work they made of it. But such 
incidents can only do me good. 

Our friend Jones HAs DECIDEDLY SOLD HIMSELF (BUT AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE 
PRICE) TO THE Bricut coterie, The idiot has ruined himself politically 
without rescuing himself commercially. Vil cut out the articles 
relating to him in Reynolds’s and send them to you. But how little 
his apostasy—the laddie is preaching UNION OF THE MIDDLE AND WORKING 
classes—has availed him (he has sold The People’s Paper to the 
Morning Star fellows, has retained a mere couple of columns in 
‘the sheet for himself and is, moreover, already at loggerheads with 
his new allies over the financial terms) will be evident to you from 
the fact that the day before yesterday he went to Freiligrath and 
handed him a letter in German in which he asked for £4, failing 
which he would be ‘locked up’. Freiligrath told him to address 
himself ‘to our rrenp Given’. That Gilpin is MANAGING pirecror of the 
Swirzer.anp Bank and of the paper with which Jones has 
incorporated himself. 

If you possibly have time, write anyruinc for Friday. I wrote 
about the Chinese Treaty yesterday.”” 

Lina is now srayinc with us, having lost her position again. 

Salut. Regards to Lupus. 

Your 
K. M. 

a ‘The Russian Agent in Circassia’, The Free Press, No. 20, 25 August 1858. - > See this 
volume, p. 109. -° K. Marx, ‘Another Strange Chapter of Modern History’. - 
4 Report from the Select Committee on Bank Acts... - ¢ “To the Editor of N. Y. Tribune’, 
New-York Daily Tribune, No. 5420, 4 September 1858. - £ The editors’ reply was 
published in the same issue as the Banker’s letter. - € Caroline Schéler 

‘ 

Come what may, you must arrange to spend a few days here 
over Christmas or the New Year. 

According to the latest report in The Economist, French trade has 
got worse rather than better over recent months.’ (Give the enclosed 

to Lupus.)