{[London,] Friday, 3 July [1857] 

9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, 
Haverstock Hill 

Dear Engels, 

Shall be writing tomorrow. This is just to inform you that the 
second half of the note had still not arrived by this evening. 
Considering the bad luck which has been dogging me of late, it 

a The reference is presumably to the article ‘Army’ requested by Dana for The New 
American Cyclopaedia. 

may well have got lost. I couldn’t go to Williams’ since my wife’s 

condition has meant—pretty well ever since you left’—that I 
can’t leave her on her own. 
Your 
K. M.