Manchester, 1 May 1852 

Dear Marx, 

Enclosed a 30/- Post Office Order, which is all I can spare for the 
moment. True, you will not be able to cash the thing tomorrow, 
on account of its being Sunday, but at least you know that you’ve 
got it. Should I find myself able to send off more of the same later 
on this month, you can be sure you'll get it come what may, but 
just now I cannot say. 

It’s very nice to hear that the little man” has turned up and is 
getting on well, and it is all to the good that he has, for the time 
being, found A FRIEND IN NEED, A FRIEND INDEED in Anschutz. He must 
visit me some time this summer, once I have seen the back of my 
old man. 

As to the question of the biographical sketches of the great men,* 
I have, oddly enough, long been turning over in my mind a similar 

a See this volume, pp. 85 and 87.- > Ernst Dronke -* See this volume, 
p. 93. 

idea for an alphabetically arranged collection of such biographies, 
which could continually be added to and kept in readiness for the 
great moment ‘when it all starts’, and then they could all at once be 
precipitated into the world. As for the publisher’s offer, £25 is not 
to be sneezed at, but we must not forget that, however great the 
ano- and pseudonymity, everyone will realise de quel cété ces fléches 
viennent,* and the responsibility would be laid at both our doors. If 
published in Germany under the present regime, the thing would 
seem to be supporting the reactionaries, and not even prefaces 
expressing the most irreproachable views in the world would make 
it seem otherwise. And that is always fatal. If the affair were 
restricted to a few—say, a dozen—of the more noteworthy 
jackasses, Kinkel, Hecker, Struve, Willich, Vogt and so forth, it 
might be more feasible, for the omission of our own names would 
not then matter very much and the things could be taken as 
issuing direct from the reactionaries. At any rate we ought, if 
possible, to write it together.'*' So decide what you think is best 
and nous verrons. £25 valent bien un peu de scandale.” 

Cluss’ letter will be returned next week. [li do the thing for 
Szerelmey.© By midday today the Americans had not yet arrived, 
maybe they are waiting for me now at home. 

Your 
F. E.