MARX TO ENGELS” 

{London,}] 7 June 1858 

Dear Frederick, 

Enclosed 2 Bangya numbers,* ONE For You, THE OTHER For Lupus. 

Have received from you 1. letter with the post orrice NoTE; 
2. second LETTER; 3. ARTICLE FOR THE TRIBUNE (VERY AMUSING ONE, TOO”). Did 
not acknowledge receipt before because each day I was expecting the 
2 Bangya numbers; also a lot of private Troubles which took up my 
time. 

Enclosed a letter from Lassalle.‘ It’s an extremely odd business. 
I cannot reply until I have your own and Lupus’ opinion. So I 
should like you to consult together at once and send me your avis* 
without delay. My own view is that Lassalle should not engage in a 
duel with that ass Fabrice and that, even from the standpoint of 
the duel, the assault by the two gentlemen from the ‘High Court’ 
has put any duelling out oF THE Question. GENERALLY, it is My view— 
though having to decide whether or not the duel as such accords 
with principle seems to me ludicrous, of course—that in the Present 
CIRCUMSTANCES, AT THIS PARTICULAR JUNCTURE, €tC., etc., in contemporary 
history, members of the revolutionary party may respond to their 
PRIVATE ENEMIES with clubs, kicks and punches, but not engage in 
duels. But it would seem to me totally wrong if, after he has come 
out so categorically against all duelling, Lassalle would allow Himself 
TO BE BULLIED by feudal cossip. 

Schapper came to see me yesterday. Told me, inter alia, that 
friend Caussidiére, arriving drunk in a disreputable alley in New 
York one evening, apparently attacked a wench with his stick; her 
yells attracted half a dozen toarers who promptly set upon 
Caussidiére and beat him almost to death. The fat lout was 
PICKED Up unconscious by the police early next morning and it 
was 6 weeks before he was fit enough to be up and about 
again. 

Seiler had a case [attack] of paralysis; at death’s door for 

a ‘Recent Treachery in Circassia’, The Free Press, No. 16, 12 May 1858. - > F. Engels, 
‘The British Army in India’. - © Lassalle’s letter to Marx of 4 June 1858 - 4 opinion 

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10 weeks; but weeds are indestructible. Heise is said to be 
dangerously ill again. . 
Salut. 

Your 
K. M.