|London,] 27 May [1859] 
Dear Engels, 

£5 received. 
You must COLOUR YOUR WAR-ARTICLES A LITTLE MORE seeing that you are 
writing for 4 General Newspaper, not for a scientific military journal. 

a Das Volk, No. 3, 21 May 1859. - > But we shall see. 

Something more descriptive and individual could easily be gleaned 
from the Times correspondent, etc. I can’t interpolate it myself as 
this would lead to unevenness of style. Failing this Dana will go and 
insert some utter nonsense off his own bat. 

Today I am sending you 2 numbers (the last ones) of the Presse 
as samples, so that you can see whether you can use the paper. 

At 7 o’clock yesterday evening Mr Liebknecht turned up with 6 
lines for Das Volk having, by his failure to appear (and the idiot is 
always taking on all manner of things), thrown the entire setting 
INTO disorder, Or so Biskamp tells me. I had told the blockhead 
exactly which bits of your pamphlet* were to be reproduced. 
Instead he tries to make a Leaver of it, in which, of course, 
he doesn’t succeed. Burgers redivivus> but far worse, since 
Bürgers could at least be used for purposes of attack in societies, 
etc. 

Garibaldi has, in my opinion, deliberately been consigned to a 
position that will spell his ruin. 

Unlike Kossuth who, with Klapka, has already ‘recognised’ 
‘Constantine’ as the Russian king of Hungary, Mazzini (undoubt- 
edly a greater authority on Italian patriotism than Mr Lassalle) is 
behaving very well.“*° I shall try and lay hands on the last, 
concluding number of his Pensiero ed Azione“ Send me your last 
copy of Po and Rhine for Mazzini. I shall write a_ short 
accompanying note, or better still, write it yourself. 

Salut. 

Your 

Still nothing from Berlin today. I. e. 16 days to correct the 
misprints in the last 3 sheets"!