Margate, 6 April 1866 
5 Lansell’s Place 

My dear Miller,° 

You see from the address that I have been banished to the 
seaside by my medical adviser.°” 

After having received your last letter, and some letters on the 
part of our Berlin friends,“ my sickness assumed a really 
dangerous character. For some time it was very doubtful whether 
or not that decomposition of the blood, under which I labour, 
should get the better of me. It was only towards the middle of 
March that I was bodily enabled to remove myself to this place. I 

a Anton Ermen - > Elisabeth Engels - © Liebknecht’s conspiratorial pseudonym - 
4d August Vogt, Sigfrid Meyer and Theodor Metzner 

am now restored, and shall very soon return to London. But again 
a quarter of a year has been lost! 

Write me immediately under my London address. 

After my return, I shall regularly send you The Commonwealth 
(under which altered title The Workman’s Advocate is now 
published).2° It is only since a few weeks that it has been 
registered for Transmission for abroad. Eccarius is no longer the 
editor, but only a contributor. It was to be foreseen, that so soon 
as the paper should get some sort of standing, a Foreigner would 
not be allowed to retain the nominal leadership.* 

Write me 

1) about the state of ‘our’ movement in Germany, 

2) about the state of German politics. 

Yours truly 
K. M. 

My best compliments to Madame.?