MARX TO ENGELS“ 

[London,] 14 August 1874 

Dear Frep, 

I suppose you will have received the letter '? I posted to you last 
Tuesday *? If not, we shall have to ask the Post Office to look into 
it, since another letter that Tussychen wrote likewise failed to 
arrive. 

On going through the accounts with my wife yesterday, it 
turned out that she had had many additional expenses. So I gave 
her some of the money intended for my trip: £16.5sh. for the 
LANDLORD and £15 for herself. For the moment I do not need more 
than what is left after I have made various purchases for the 
journey, and since I do not expect to be leaving Karlsbad before 
18 or 20 September, you could send me what money I need then 
out of the next quarter’s allowance. 

However, it is very improbable that I shall be able to stay in 
Karlsbad. Last week there was a trial in Vienna where the accused 
was indicted on a number of counts, including the charge that 
he had sent a photograph of the ‘Social Communist K.M.’ (as the 
prosecutor described me) to London. Admittedly, this charge was 
not held by the court to be a criminal act. 

New arrests have been made at all the Russian universities,” and 
it is obvious that throughout Europe the attempt is being made 
once again to turn the ‘International’ into a bogey. 

@ 11 August 

However That May BE, I shall set off tomorrow, since otherwise I 
shall arrive too late in the season. 

Tussy is feeling much better; her appetite is growing in 
geometric proportion, but it is the characteristic feature of these 
women’s ailments in which hysteria plays a part; you have to 
pretend not to notice that the invalid is again living on earthly 
sustenance. This too becomes unnecessary once recovery is 
complete. 

The carbuncle did not develop into anything big, but it did go 
deep. Since yesterday the discharge has quite stepped, so it is 
starting to heal. A real blessing that I did not set off earlier. It 
could have been really unpleasant while travelling. However, it was 
idiotic of Longuet to write about it to Jennychen. If there is any 
harassment in Karlsbad, I suppose I shall be compelled to beat a 
retreat to Hamburg. Borkheim is away. 

With best regards to all. 

Your 
K. M. 

Has Jennychen received the Lanterne which I posted off at the 
same time as the Peasant War*? 

If Rochefort fails to produce a good Lanterne this week, he will 
have to be written off. The French government is doing all that is 
humanly possible to ridicule other people.