[London,] 25 February" 1859 
Dear Engels, 

Po and Rhine is a first-class idea and must be put in hand 
straight away.*”? You must set to at once, time being everything in 
this case. I have written to Lassalle this very day and am sure that 
little Jew Braun will put the thing through. 

The pamphlet (How Many sheets? Let me have the answer to this by 
return) must first appear anonymously so that the public believes the 
author to be an eminent general. In the second edition, which you 
may account a certainty provided the thing comes out on time, 
you will reveal your identity in a 6-11ne foreword, and then it will 
be a triumph for our party. In my ‘Preface’? I have done you a 
few honneurs, and thus it is all to the good if you yourself take the 
stage immediately afterwards. 

Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we’re 
the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of 
peace. 

In any case, you'll get the copies of the Tribune. Not one of the 
military articles‘ has so far been published. Mr Dana didn’t print 
the first, which you wrote 4 LONG Time aco, but will probably do so 
now. I too constantly experience the like. It’s often three months 
before the asses discover that we’ve foretold events for them, 
whereupon they print the relevant articles. 

* A slip of the pen in the original: 29 February. - > to A Contribution to the Critique of 
Political Economy - © Marx presumably means Engels’ articles ‘German Resources for 
War’ and ‘The Austrian Hold on Italy’. 

My brother-in-law’s* address is correct save that he forgot to 
add ‘Crry wear THE Generar Posr Orricg’. But I imagine he'll be in 
Manchester by now and able to tell you about himself. 

Salut. 

- Your 
K. M.