{London,] 3 March 1859 

Dear Engels, 

From the enclosed letter of Lassalle’s?* 

my men and what MANAGEMENT means. 

As regards the letter, I would make the following observations: 

1. You must now really follow my advice and shun the office 
altogether for a few days. I did, of course, put the thing in such a 
way as to suggest that I’d already read your manuscript.* A few 
days here or there are of no importance, but if you only work in 
the evenings you won’t finish in time. 

2. In your position you cannot agree to the small fee but must, 
if only honoris causa, settle for the alternative of half the net 
profits. 

3. Lassalle’s direction that you send the title (i.e. not write it on 
the manuscript), the foreword (which I’d suggest you don’t write) 
and the table of contents to him personally (F. Lassalle, 131 
Potsdamer Strasse, Berlin), is a sensible one. For parcels are being 
opened by the Post Office, and the government mustn’t know the 
title, which would give them the key to the whole secret. 

The manuscript, on the other hand, I shall send from here, as I 
sent my own manuscript” (i.e. insured), to Duncker via Fraulein 
Ludmilla Assing. Only [ll get Pfander to put himself down as the 
sender. 

4. You should indeed include something national, anti- 
Bonapartist, but the tone should be careful and gentlemanly. You 
can the more readily employ this colour in that the intention of 
your pamphlet is, tv Fact, a great victory for Mazzini vis-a-vis the 
National Assembly of 1848 (Radowitz‘-Mincio),**? and you enable 
Germans for the first time to interest themselves with a good 
conscience in Italy’s emancipation. 

Now, GOOD-BYE, OLD BOY. 

you will see that I know 

Your 
K. M. 

a Po and Rhine (see this volume, pp. 391-92) - > A Contribution to the Critique of 
Political Economy - < Marx refers to J. M. von Radowitz’s speech of 12 August 1848 in 
the Frankfurt National Assembly. 

In his latest Gottfried Mr Gottfried* kow-tows to Suse-Sibeth, 
whom he describes as a model merchanting house, likewise to that 
wretched publisher, Tribner, who has compiled a_ worthless 
American bibliography.” Macte puer virtute<