London, 16 March 1859 
9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, 
Haverstock Hill 

Dear Lassalle, 

Your latest work? and accompanying letter have not yet arrived, 
nor are they to be here so soon. Despatch through publisher’s 
channels is about as expeditious as if you were to send me the 
things via Petersburg, Kamchatka and North America. 

If it’s not too late, get them to print “THE RIGHT OF TRANSLATION IS 
Reserved ON the last manuscript‘ I sent you. Otherwise some of the 
German clowns over here might massacre the thing. 

Owing to circumstances which I can’t go into today (for I am 
dictating an article in English“ while writing this note to you), Iam 
very hard pressed for money. Might it be possible for you to carry 
out some sort of bill transaction for me in Berlin having a 
currency of a few weeks, in return for which you could 
subsequently take the fee Duncker owes me? 

a The letter is unsigned. - > Franz von Sickingen -« F. Engels, Po and Rhine. - 
“ K, Marx, ‘The War Prospect in Prussia’. 

Yesterday I had a visitor from Paris, a man by whose judgment 
1 set tremendous store. Speaking of war,’” he said: ‘II n’y a pas 
deux opinions a Paris. Nous avons la guerre’* He was quite convinced 
that, were Bonaparte to draw back, he would crack up and, Like 
the Empereur Soulouque, would be betrayed by the army itself. 
Even the Parisian bourgeois, though rabid for peace, are already 
beginning to mutter that the fellow has no more courage than 
Louis Philippe. 

There’s one factor, by the by, which you must not overlook; 
Russia is stirring up the whole thing, and her ally, Palmerston (you 
only have to look at The Times) is doing all he can to drive 
Bonaparte to war. On top of that there'll soon be a change of 
ministry here, and then Palmerston will run the thing direct.*” 
The pro-Pocrio, etc., demonstrations here are wholly inspired by 
him. He has placed his son-in-law, Lord Shaftesbury, at the head 
of these, AS RESPONSIBLE EDITOR.>*” 

I am now, after all, beginning to believe that the war might hold 
out some prospects for us as well. 

Salut. 
Your 

K. M. 

Don’t forget, by the by, that if you write to me about certain 
conditions,” it will benefit a vast public, amongst whom a great 
many Germans. The Tribune numbers some 200,000 regular 
subscribers.