Manchester, 10 August 1859 

Dear Moor, 

Just now I’m in such a jam, paying off private debts which have 
accumulated in respect of the new financial year, that only in the 
case of direst need shall I be able to advance any money to the 
Volk during the next few weeks. I neither see nor hear anything 
of Strohn, but should know at once if he returned to Bradford. If 
the worst comes t6 the worst you could always write to 
Borchardt—I don’t see why not. Then you could let me know 
and, if necessary, Lupus might also drop in on him. I neither see 
nor hear anything of Borchardt. 

Yesterday evening, when about to write the 2nd article on your 
book,’ I was interrupted in such a way as to preclude further 
work. I shan’t be able to make up for lost time today and so the 
article will have to be put off till next week, greatly to my 
annoyance. 

I was out of town from Saturday to Monday, and on Monday 
evening found the enclosed scrawl from Duncker.*” The note I 
enclose will enable you to obtain the 6 copies of Po and Rhine; 
send me those you don’t need. Freiligrath has had one. It’s really 
high time the fool was forced to adopt a less equivocal position, or 
at very least to shell out. 

Duncker is frankly trying to do me down. Lassalle mentioned 
2,000 copies; now he claims to have printed only 1,000. Siebel, 
who is back here again, tells me that, to judge by his own 
experience of the pamphlet’s success with booksellers, this must be 
a lie. Que faire? 

What do you think of the pretty excuse for failing to advertise 
your book? 

So Mazzini has finally made his diplomatic revelations in a 
frightful tirade in The Times“ All the same, the facts are 

a F, Engels, ‘Karl Marx. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy’. - ’ What’s 
to be done? - ¢ G. Mazzini, ‘To the Editor of The Times’, The Times, No. 2338], 
10 August 1859. 

482 275, Marx to Engels. 13 August 1859 

important and confirm our information and conclusions. Perhaps 

this will shake Urquhart’s view that Mazzini’s a Russian.“ 
Salut. 
Your 
F. E.