London, 2 July 1858 
9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, 
Haverstock Hill 

Dear Engels, 

The delay in acknowledging your ‘Cavalry’*° due to great 
domestic trouste. For weeks our youngest child” has been 

ain a nutshell - > Eleanor Marx 

suffering from Hoopinc-cough, a most alarming illness, besides which 
my wife is very seedy. So my work has been damnably disrupted 
by this and all kinds of other domestic upsets. 

You will remember that, while our friend Schramm was in 
Jersey, I secured him the position of correspondent to an 
American paper. Now that he’s dead and after he had dunned 
them on several occasions, his fee of some 6 pounds has arrived and 
has, of course, fallen to Mr Rudolf* as pocket-money. 

Otherwise nothing new here. That littl London German rag 
once run by Gumpert has, I believe, now fallen to ‘united 
democracy’, sub auspiciis> of the great Blind under the title Neue 
Welt< 

I assume you have read the statements made in the Star by'Mr 
Tirr and by the Hungarian émigrés in Constantinople. If not, I 
shall send you The Free Press.“ Meanwhile Kossuth still remains 
obdurately silent. Our excerpt from Bangya’s story has appeared 
in the Tribune* The row in New York will force Kossuth to speak. 
Thus I may have to come right out into the open in this matter. 
Pulszky had de longue main’ provided a loophole in the Tribune 
when he described Bangya as a former spy of Metternich’s (!).* 
Klapka, whom I met for a moment or two at Freiligrath’s, 
remarked drily of Bangya: ‘Finis coronat opus.” He seems to be 
very blasé about Kossuth. Is presently dabbling in Turkish shares. 

Herewith two letters from New York.*”! 

I have had no word from Ephraim Artful’ for a fortnight. 
Being convinced, oF course, that there was small likelihood of my 
letter being put to discreet use by him, I worded it with the utmost 
Caution SO THAT IT WILL BE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO ABUSE IT. Apart 
from the special circumstances of the case, concerning which I gave 
him your opinion pretty well verbatim, I censured duelling only in 
so far as it is claimed as privilege of caste by fellows who believe 
that their insults must be punished. otherwisé than those of a tailor, 
cobbler, etc. The revolutionary thing to do, I told him, when 
confronted with such inane presumption and laddies of this ilk, 
was to adopt the ‘standpoint of the lout’ and the ‘code of the 
bludgeon’. On the other hand, in reply to Ephraim’s pedantry, I 
said that duelling was among the things Aristotle described as 
being ‘indifferent’ and which one could either take or leave as one 

a Rudolf Schramm - > under the auspices - © presumably Die Neue Zeit - 4 1. Tarr, 
‘To the Editor of the Presse d’Orient’, The Free Press, No. 18, 30 June 
1858. - ¢« K. Marx, ‘A Curious Piece of History’. - long ago - & [F. Pulszky,] ‘From 
Our Own Correspondent. London, April 23, 1858’, New-York Daily Tribune, No. 5319, 
8 May 1858. - “The end crowns the work.’ -i Ferdinand Lassalle 

pleased; I told him he was right in saying that it was a relic of a 
bygone stage of development but that, ‘given the one-sidedness 
and narrow-mindedness of bourgeois relations, individuality could 
sometimes assert itself only in feudal form’. 

I trust that, come what may, you will send me an article on 
India” next week. There is ample material for an article for the 
Tribune, which will otherwise reprint stuff from The Times, etc. 
Anyway, all that matters is that articles should be sent. 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 

Regards to Lupus. 

Humboldt has published a very ‘flattering’ letter in the Tribune 
addressed to Frébel,“ who has published a book of his American 
travels."