Manchester, 11 January 1865 
58 Dover Street 

My sweet child, 

I wanted to leave Manchester tomorrow, but I'll be hardly able 
to do so before Sunday (15th Jan.) next.* Ernest Jones, whom I 
am anxious to speak, is busily engaged in the neighbouring towns 
and has invited me (and Engels) for next Friday evening when 
he’ll be at home. I have not yet seen him, and could not see him 
before that day. This is one cause of delay. There are others, 
but at all events I shall not stay longer than until Sunday. 

The German translation of the ‘Address to the Working 
Classes’* has been reprinted in the Mainzer Zeitung, the ‘Address to 
Lincoln’? in the Berliner Reform and the London Hermann. The 
latter honour is probably due to Mr Juch’s anxiety lest his rival 
Bender might monopolize ‘our protection’. 

The weather here was abominable. Today ‘the sun shines’, as 
Miller has it, but its rays are reflected by the ice drops covering 
the dirty streets. Even the sunbeams must here always have 
something disagreeable to fall upon. 

I have not yet seen a Borchardt, and as to the Gumperts, I had 
only a few minutes’ conversation with the Dr yesterday evening. 

On my arrival I did not find Frederick, but in his stead a letter 
informing me that he would be back from fox-hunting at 6 
o'clock. Meanwhile he had taken all precautionary measures for 
making my ‘entrée joyeuse’* (with your great historical knowledge 
you'll not be at a loss as to the ‘entrée joyeuse’). Whether his change 
of domicile is an improvement, seems a rather debatable question. 
At all events, the people are less impudent. 

Apropos. There is much ‘chronique scandaleuse’ just now in the 
Freiligrath world, as far as it is connected with the General Bank of 
Switzerland. There has appeared a pamphlet at Genéve, disclosing 
the scandalous mismanagement of Fazy,’ Freiligrath’s ‘natural 
superior’. He has been forced to resign his post as supreme 
director of the bank, and ‘um zu retten, was zu retten ist’* (literally 
this) Jew Reinach has been put into his place, assisted by a 
Frenchman and— Karl Vogt who has the despicable meanness of 
betraying, and denouncing,and publicly declaring against Fazy, his 
old idol, the man in fact of whom he is a mere ‘creature’. 

I suppose you are aware that the first ‘abonnement number’! of 
the ‘Social-Democrat’ has been confiscated by the police at Berlin.™ 
This is a rather favourable accident. Those fellows stand in need 
of some small political martyrdom. 

I hope all is right at home. The cat being gone, the mice ought 
to dance. Pay my compliments to Ma, ‘Success’, ‘Mine Own’ and 
the ‘Prophet’.£ As to yourself, my dear Aaron, I dreamt of you last 

 K. Marx, ‘Inaugural Address of the Working Men’s International Association’. - 
b K. Marx, ‘To Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America’. - 
© Soyful entrance’ (a French medieval expression used to welcome the arrival of a 
prince or king into one of his own towns). - 4 James Fazy. Sein Leben und Treiben. (Von 
einem Westschweizer), Neue Ziircher-Zeitung, Nos. 321-360, 16 November - 25 De- 
cember 1864.-¢ to save what can yet be saved -f regular issue for the 
subscribers - § Mrs Marx, Laura, and Eleanor Marx and Helene Demuth 

night, and saw you in your bloomer costume, performing the most 
wonderful jumps, almost flying through the air, after you had 
before done the Davenport trick in the most admirable manner.* 
I felt quite proud and chuckled in my sleeves over the success of 
my old acquaintance, and had the most lively remembrance of the 
rather unplastic dance you had in bygone times executed before 
the golden calf, in the desert.’ 

Show Ma the inclosed. She will remember Bochum-Dolfs, from 
Paris. He is now the happy father of 10 children with whom he 
‘vagabonds’ through the world.