{London,] 16 March 1859 

Dear Frederick, 

£5 received. Thanks. 

Yesterday proof sheet II” arrived. If it goes on like this it'll take 
them three months. There can’t possibly be more than one 
type-setter employed on this affair. 

I don’t know what to write about on Friday. Can you do 
something—on Armstrong’s GuN, perhaps? 

Mr Bruno Bauer has, I am told, written a pamphlet on the 
‘question of the day’, pro-Russia and France and anti-Austria and 
England. He is now the ally of Manteuffel, in support of whom he 
has already written recently in the Zeii< 

I am sending you that clown Edgar Bauer’s paper. The man has 
become a great communist and working men’s representative. He 
and his little rag are almost finished. The first article, ‘Zank’, is a 

a F. Miklosich, Vergleichende Grammatik der slawischen Sprachen. -» of Marx’s 
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy - ¢ Die Neue Zeit - d Die Neue Zeit, 
No. 37, 12, March 1859. 

direct attack on me. I am, it seems, quietly to join up with Mr 
Edgar and emerge from my ‘surly’ and ‘distrustful’ isolation. The 
clown has turned into a real preacher. He doesn’t dare attack the 
Hermann for fear the fellows may disclose his ‘past’, 

Kinkel’s paper is doing excellent business. Prudently, he has 
quite given up writing himself. The money comes partly from a 
Dr Juch and partly from the Portuguese Jew, Castello (an old 
Portuguese financial house), who was talked into it by the great 
Gerstenberg.*