{[London,] 13 August 1858 

Dear Engels, 

I am delighted to hear that my fears about your health were 
unfounded. 

Of the two letters I meant to send you, one was from 
Weydemeyer (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) and the other from one 
A. Komp (New York), both of which arrived under the same 
cover. I had put them down on the table (my writing-table) to 
enclose them in my letter to you, forgot, and then couldn’t find 
them. They are probably tucked away in one of the many 

4 Ferdinand Lassalle’s - > Jenny and Laura Marx 

notebooks that are strewn around, and will reappear when I leaf 
through them.*?! 

I know nothing about the Cyclopaedia save that I’ve seen an 
advertisement for the second volume in the Tribune.* So it’s still 
coming out and, if you have the leisure, you might occasionally do 
something for C.—subject, however, to two reservations: 1. I 
cannot go to the Museum” just now; 2. it would be of more 
immediate advantage to me to increase my balance at the Tribune. 
This has already decreased slightly since my wife went away and I 
cannot in any case write twice for them myself, as it’s impossible 
for me to deal with subjects such as India, Montenegro, China, 
Bonaparte’s_ military railway system and _ his installations at 
Cherbourg.*”* Hence, as soon as time permits (and, oF course, 
without physical Harm to yourself), I would greatly prefer it if, in 
the immediate future, you were to write more often for the 
Tribune, ON ANY SUBJECT WHATEVER, 

The sea is doing my wife a lot of good; at the beginning of this 
week she sent for all the children and Lenchen.‘ So rar so coop; the 
only snag is that, UNDER THE circumstances, I shall hardly be able to let 
her stay there beyond next week. Mentally she is very much 
refreshed, but physically (save that her nerves are stronger) she is 
not yet all that she might be. In Ramsgate she has made the 
acquaintance of refined and, horribile dictu,? clever Englishwomen. - 
After years during which she has enjoyed only inferior company, 
if any at all, intercourse with people of her own kind seems to 
agree with her. 

Have you read the review in The Times of Gladstone’s book on 
Homer?* There is much that is amusing in it (the review). A work 
such as this is, by the by, typical of your Englishman’s 
incompetence in matters of ‘philology’. 

I presume that TRape in MANCHESTER is again Looking uP? Indeed, 
over the past few weeks the world has grown damned optimistic 
again. 

Mr Pyat, still oppressed by the fact that his name was not given 
due prominence during the recent political prosecutions, has 
published a fresh ‘lettre’ about his ‘lettre’ to the Parliament, 
containing a vindication of ‘regicide’.*”? In order to compel the 
government to prosecute, he has flouted police regulations by 

a New-York Daily Tribune, No. 5319, 8 May 1858-> the British Museum 
Library - © Helene Demuth - 4 horrible to mention - € W. E. Gladstone, Studies on 
Homer and the Homeric Age (the review appeared in The Times, Nos. 23070 and 23071, 
12 and 13 August 1858 under the title ‘Mr. Gladstone’s Homeric Studies’). - f F. Pyat, 
Lettre au jury. Défense de la lettre au Parlement et a la Presse. 

letting the scrawl come out without the printer’s name. But the 
government is inexorable. Pyat is not to be made a martyr, even to 
the tune of a 2/6d fine with costsin a magistrate’s court. Le pauvre 
Sire!? 

Warm regards to Lupus. 

Your 
K. M.