{London,] 9 February 1859 
Dear Engels, 

- At last a letter from Duncker today. He didn’t receive the 
manuscript? until 1 February. Not printed this week, because just 
completing some work or other—I don’t know which—of 
Lassalle’s.‘ 

Enclosed a letter from Eccarius and Pfander from which you 
will see that poor Eccarius is down with consumption. This is the 
most tragic thing I have yet experienced here in London. 

Pieper, who had been discharged as cured, is back from Bognor 
again and in the German hospital. This time starvation treatment. 
SERVES HIM RIGHT. 

I meant to send you the enclosed letters from Weydemeyer and 
Komp long ago.*' I have at last replied to them.‘ 

Dronke has been to Bonn, where one of his brothers was dying. 
Having obtained Flottwell’s permission, he attended a ball given by 

a This refers to ‘Discours de S. M. L’Empereur. Session législative de 1859’ (Le 
Moniteur universel, No. 39, special edition, 7 February 1859) and the pamphlet 
inspired by Napoleon III: [A. La Guéronniére,] L’Empereur Napoléon III et 
Vitalie. - > K. Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. - © ¥. Lassalle, 
Franz von Sickingen. - 4 See this volume, pp. 324, 338 and 374-78. 

his [students’] ‘corps’ in Bonn. The little man* has written to 
Dingelstedt (of Fulda), through whom he hopes to arrange a 
performance of a play he himself has written. In addition, the little 
man writes ‘Glasgower Briefe’ for Prutz’s Museum.” I had all this 
news from philistine Freiligrath. 

From the latter, who came to see me yesterday (I myself being 
confined to the house with a bad throat), I also learned that 
Gottfried’s—-or Hermann’s‘—behaviour towards ladies is invari- 
ably so ludicrous (the buffoon now supposes he need only throw 
down his handkerchief) that he has become an object of general 
dégotit." Moreover, Freiligrath has now also tumbled to the fact 
that Gottfried feels exceptionally ‘Free anp easy’ now that the Mockel 
woman‘ is dead and—strangest of all—it now transpires that, even 
before the day of the funeral, philistine Freiligrath and wife had 
discovered brother Hermann’s ‘lack of concern’. 

According to Gottfried, the Hermann, to which the Prussian 
government has, as the Berlin National-Zeitung announces, granted 
a licence for postal distribution, is to cover the ‘loss to his funds 
occasioned by his wife’s death. 

In due course, no doubt, Mrs Daniels will become Mrs Bürgers. 
She has written to Lina‘ saying that ‘Birgers has grown still more 
energetic and self-confident’. In proof of that ‘self-confidence’ 
she writes, ‘we are delighted by Freiligrath’s poem about Mrs 
Kinkel,= which was mutilated by the “perfidious” Kélnische 
Zeitung’. 

Steffen has written to Freiligrath asking for your address and 
mine as he has lost them. Steffen’s address is: W. Steffen, Harrison 
Square near Boston, Mass. U. St. 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M.