APPENDICES
Dear Mr Engels,
How can you imagine that I would have been angry with you over that little drinking spree? I was very sorry not to have seen you again before you left, for that would have enabled you to see for yourself that I was only somewhat sulky in respect of my liege lord. Besides, such interludes often have quite salutory effects, but this time père Marx must have caught a bad chill during his nocturnal philosophic excursion with 'the archbishop's nephew',b
for he fell seriously ill and has up till now stayed quietly in bed. He may perhaps be able to get up a little today and apply himself to the articles for America.0 However, I don't think he is as much restored as he imagines. For three nights he rambled in his speech and was very poorly. He asks you to convey his regards to Weerth and to tell him that he was very annoyed with him for having written no more than 2 words when forwarding Reinhardts letter from Paris, and that he must above all fulfil his duty as a former editor of the Neue Rheinische and send out to America some articles from stock.c As for that insufferable man,d here, word for word, is what père Marx says now:
'Ever drunk as a lord; boasting about his insinuating ways with women, meaning his being kicked out of bars; from the outset raucously inciting the English public in streets and alleyways, PARLOURS, omnibuses and HAPENNYSTEAMBOATS, to take part in the great debates between Kinkel and Ruge; dragging every German by the ear to the Cranbourne Hotel; one of the most pompous ranters of the Emigrés' Club,[26] and hence also crudely venting his spleen on the out-of-the-way little church of the N. Rh. Z. Should he ask Weerth's protection, the latter must tell him to look for a post in one of the seven ministries to be set up by Kinkel, which should not present any difficulty in view of his great services to the great and only revolutionary party and of his influence on Kinkel's pair of court scribes, Meyen and Oppenheim. Generally speaking, should Weerth be approached by any of the blackguards, he must give them to understand that he, too, belongs to the "small, incorrigible, separatist church" of the N. Rh. Z, as Meyen put it when writing to America.'
So much for my exalted patient, 'old Crosspatch'. Yesterday a very nice letter arrived from Cluss in Washington, from which Kinkel's boundless turpitude again emerges. Unfortunately I cannot enclose it as Freiligrath took it away with him yesterday. We shall send it tomorrow. Pass on bits of it to Weerth.
Freiligrath has a new story about Kinkel's toadyism towards the democratic grocers here, which I shall now treat you to. Freiligrath applies to a blind German democratic merchant here for a position. He acquaints him with his commercial testimonials, whereupon the cross-eyed cheesemonger tells him: 'I have had the privilege of making Professor Kinkel's acquaintance. I attended one of his lectures, after which the Professor called on me and at once offered to come to my house of an evening and read aloud free of charge the best German poetic works. I, of course, declined this exceptional offer, not being in a position adequately to reward a man like Professor Kinkel for such services. In addition, the gentleman would have had the expense of the omnibus fares, since he lives some distance away. Nevertheless, the Professor came and read aloud to me from German poets.— Amongst which a few little things by yourself, Mr Freiligrath— whereupon he told me that you were really a man of commerce and had already held a position, etc., etc. The Professor's wifea
also called on me and offered to sing and play to me.'—Doubtless the Professor's wife would also have obliged with dances and poses plastiques* had she not been dealing with a blind connoisseur.
The future president of the German Republic, who goes chasing after the grocers here in order to read them his divine poetry and sometimes snatch a bite of supper, all but outshines the French Krapiilinski.c It will also interest you to hear that your former chief, General Willich, has received a sound thrashing at the hands of the inferior refugees, since the latter are unable to grasp the difference between themselves and the superior refugees, and disapprove of the way the large revolutionary funds are being administered in the interests of the great men. It would further appear from Cluss' letter that Kinkel has used Willich's MYSTIFICA-TIONS and Schramm's letter[10] to provide proof in America of their connections with Cologne. It will soon be time to come out with the true story. Kinkel has apparently been putting about in America too that Marx's party presents prizes for vice in order not to become moral heroes. Musch sends Frederick his love. The girls have already gone to school. You will, perhaps, remember that Pieper made the boy a present of his fine travelling bag. Yesterday he threatened to take it back and buy him something else instead. This morning the boy hid the bag, and just now he said: 'Moor,a
I've hiddened it well and if Pieper asks for it, I'll tell him I've given it to a poor man.' The slyboots!
Adieu.
Warmest greetings
Jenny Marx
191S Published in English for the first ° ' ' time
2. Jenny Marx to Joseph Weydemeyer. 9 January 1852[12]
Dear Mr Weydemeyer,
For the past week my husband has been very poorly and is for the most part confined to bed. Nevertheless he has managed to finish the enclosed sequel to his article,b so that there may be no interruption in the printing thereof, supposing a start has really been made on it.
A few days ago we had a letter from Cluss in Washington — with whom I hope you have already made contact for you will find him in all respects an excellent support — from which Kinkel's boundless turpitude again emerges. For while this hypocrite fawns on Karl's friends in the most barefaced manner and writes to them, saying 'he has emphasised the need to get in touch with Marx and the most capable members of his party' (a downright lie), he seeks in the most perfidious way to blacken my husband's personal character and relates the most edifying tales about him and his friends drawn from Willich's mendacious innuendoes.
Karl, who doesn't feel strong enough today to write to you himself, asks me to tell you that you should provide some information in your papera about our poor friends in Cologne,b
the more so since Kinkel's party, along with its court scribes and its rowdies and its compliant Lithographische Korrespondenz, deliberately passes over their existence and all their sufferings in complete silence, which is all the more infamous as it is precisely to Becker,c Bürgers and their erstwhile organd that Kinkel owes most of his popularity. But our people languish in prisons, are hideously treated, and now will have to spend another three months in jug while the great men of the future are pocketing thousands in the name of the revolution and are already handing out future ministerial posts.
How was your dear wifee after the terrible voyage? What are your children doing? Have they all become more or less acclimatised?[683]
But time is getting exceedingly short. I must hurry out and post this letter. Let us hope that the conclusion of his article will be easier for my dear Karl.
Farewell for the present,
Yours
Jenny Marx
Lupus is now somewhat recovered. He, too, will send something soon, as will Engels. Insistent reminders have also gone off to Weerth. Red Wolffa has got married and, being on his honey-moon, cannot let you have anything as yet.
3. Jenny Marx to Frederick Engels. 16 January 1852
Dear Mr Engels,
As you see, I am still en fonctionh as secretary. My husband has still not altogether left his bed. He was indeed very poorly. Tomorrow he will attempt to take a short walk. His illness prevented him from getting anything done for America, although he did manage to strike some sparks out of Freiligrath and Pieper. I enclose herewith a most felicitous poem of Freiligrath's.' Let our friend Weerth have a look at it as well. Perhaps he too will feel inspired to climb onto Pegasus. Send us the Tribune if you have finished with it. Next week you will receive a very nice letter from Cluss. Lupus hasn't got it just now. We hope to hear from you soon and may you enjoy your PALE ALE in the meantime.
Warm regards from the patient.
Jenny Marx
4. Jenny Marx to Joseph Weydemeyer. 27 February 1852[684]
Dear Mr Weydemeyer,
After a week of strenuous nocturnal labours, his days being taken up with domestic affairs, my husband's eyes are so wretchedly sore that he cannot possibly write to you today and I must assume all secretarial functions. He asks me to tell you that he has been unable to read through the whole of Eccarius' article,a
and that you yourself must correct the orphographic mistakes; for this admirable man, who writes excellently, has only just learnt his letters here and knows nothing of full-stops and commas. He is also sending you an article by a Hungarian b who is familiar with the innermost secrets of the Hungarian émigrés. You yourself must decide whether you can use and publish it at this moment. At all events, it is essential to keep in with the man, since he has promised to provide us later on with original contributions by Perczel, Szemere, etc., whose intimate he is. My husband thinks you should, of course, correct the worst grammatical howlers that crop up in the article, but that a few peculiarities of style which might give it the stamp of a genuine Hungarian product could do no harm at all. He further requests you to return as' soon as possible the five instalments of his paper on Napoleonc if you should not succeed in publishing it. We might, perhaps, be able to bring it out in a French translation, although it would really be a pity about the German version. He would greatly prefer it if you could succeed in America, since the piece is bound to sell and could also be distributed in Germany, providing as it does an historical appreciation of the most important event of the present day. I hope that there will soon be some good news from you, dear Mr Weydemeyer, to wit that your dear wife has come smoothly through the great catastrophe, and that two births have taken place under your roof — a son and a journal. My very warmest greetings to your dear wife.
Yours Jenny Marx So that it will not take so long, you might have each of the individual articles printed separately, because the thing is of immediate interest. Later, they could be combined into one. No. 5 goes off today. Next Friday he will be sending No. 6, the final instalment.[85] As already mentioned, then, try to publish the work as a pamphlet. Otherwise, send the thing back, because come what may, we must get it published.
Many regards to Cluss also, and write soon telling us just how things are with you.
Lupus has just brought a brief scrawl on the latest events of the day in London.
5. Jenny Marx to Adolf Cluss. 15 October 1852
Dear Mr Cluss,
Today my husband has appointed me his deputy and I therefore hasten to assume the duties of a secrétaire intime. For my husband is under such PRESSURE FROM WITHOUT AND WITHIN that he has had to traipse round all day on HOME BUSINESS and now, just gone 5, has not yet returned to dispose, more especially, of the affair Briiningk v. Cluss.a Do nothing, absolutely nothing about this matter until the next STEAMER. Imandt had meant to send a statement today proving that Willich and Kinkel had made insulting remarks about Mrs Briiningk. At the same time he will lay the blame for all the tittle-tattle at the door of that old buffoon, Ruge, presently knight-errant and champion of princely innocence, and will do so all the more easily as the rumour indeed arose and began to spread at the very moment when the old jackass declared Kinkel to be — witness his close friend Gross — an agent of the Prince of Prussia,b at the same time revealing that Kinkel's release had been the prince's doing, but that Mrs Brüningk had also played a leading role in the affair and had put up the money for it. In Germany, these rumours were both current at once and (if Dronke's memory is to be trusted, though he cannot say for certain) it is said that in the self-same article Ruge spoke of the suspect circles frequented here by Gottfried. Well, this stupid affair is nothing but a conspiracy to avenge themselves on Marx-Cluss by imputing to them vile, anonymous gossip and slander — an art in which these curs have long since been practising with the greatest virtuosity. No sooner had the old Pomeranian[3] broken a lance for the princess than he paid a personal call on the great lady. No doubt Heinzen, too, still hopes to supplement his Whiggish sourcea by striking and exploiting a princely seam over here for his Janus. But how ridiculous, the way in which the rabble suddenly raises a hue and cry in two continents when, for so long, it has heaped scurrility upon scurrility, tittle-tattle upon tittle-tattle, calumny upon calumny. And withal there is really nothing to the article [50] which, at least, reveals in moderate, discreet, indeed veiled terms, what has been said bluntly and openly by her own guests. The revolting thing about it is that one would sooner keep this scum at a healthy distance than be forced to grapple with them, and over so paltry a matter to boot. My husband himself had intended to send you today an article written in his own name about how your article came to be published in the Wecker. But Imandt thought it absolutely essential that my husband, against whom the whole thing has been cooked up, should be left out of it, which is why he wanted to write the statement himself. Unfortunately it has not yet arrived! But you should do nothing about the matter until you receive further instructions. Meyen was saying today that Dronke, Willich and Kinkel had stated on their word of honour that they had never said anything defamatory about the woman. So the fellows had already been subjected to a cross-examination. As you see, here too, the thing is being conducted as a matter of the utmost importance. By the by, from his own viewpoint Schnauffer's replyc is excellent, witty and apt and, in truth, the two philosophers ought not to make so much fuss merely because a high-born lady is ill-used. Did anyone ask any questions when Ruge spread the most scurrilous, defamatory and socially ruinous rumours and things about my husband, and this at a time when my husband's lips were sealed by party considerations and out of regard for his friends in Germany.
Did anyone bother whether all this grieved me almost to death, when my childa died, having imbibed at my breast torment, grief and care?—oh! and all the other sufferings — yet I was not called princess when I was born — but wherefore all this foolish commotion? We shall extricate ourselves somehow and prove the others responsible. But you must wait, at any rate, just one more posting-day.
The Brumaires have not yet arrived. My husband will send you by the next post the 2 People's Papers containing your articles.b
My brother Edgar has at last written to his mother/ Thanks to your kind efforts my letter reached him safely.c Once again, may I say how grateful I am.
One more thing. Keep Jacobus Huzel on a fairly short rein so that he doesn't kick over the traces.d There should be no chit-chat with the vermin since their line now is to implicate us and thus erase the memory of their past infamies. Some diplomacy is required in dealing with this bunch of purely objective, principled, honourable, worthy washerwomen.
You have, I suppose, been following the Cologne trial in the Kölnische. Today we received an account of Becker'se interrogation. Since there was nothing against him, it had been agreed to leave Becker out of the thing altogether,f and this will explain to you the manner of his defence, which will be eagerly seized upon by the democrats in order to claim Becker as one of their own and declare him the true hero — free, independent man of the people that he is and no blind follower of a secret society's cut-and-dried doctrine—, precisely because he is the weakest of all and has the greatest amount of democratic blood in his veins. Should that loud-mouthed Heinzen make use of this case to build up Becker, you can at once point out that the defence had been agreed upon beforehand and that, shortly before his arrest, Becker had insistently begged my husband to attack with him in his review[685]
all the official democrats — Ruge, Heinzen, Kinkel, Willich, etc., etc.— and hold them up to ridicule. That he also wanted to have Willich's imbecile letters published.(1) Further that, on his release, the democratic gentlemen could expect to fare no better, etc., etc. I am writing in something of a rush. I must catch the post.
Farewell and warm regards,
Jenny Marx
Write again soon. Your letters invariably give us the greatest pleasure. My husband is always saying that if we had a few more chaps like Cluss, we might yet get something done. In the meantime, don't do too much. Best let dog eat dog, otherwise they might band together to combat the 'common enemy', the wicked, infamous blight — Marx and his clique.
6. Jenny Marx to Adolf Cluss. 30 October 1852
Dear Mr Cluss,
You will have been following the monster trial of the communists in the Kölnische Zeitung. During the sitting of 23 October the whole thing took such a splendid and interesting turn, and one so favourable to the accused, that we are beginning to regain some of our confidence.[686] As you can imagine, the 'Marx party' is busy day and night and is having to throw itself into the work body and soul. This overloading with work also accounts for my again appearing before you as deputy reporter. Mr Willich's close friend, Mr Dietz, now also in America, has contrived to have all the documents, letters, minutes, etc., etc. of Willich's clique stolen from him. They were produced by the prosecution as evidence of the party's dangerous activities. In order to establish a
Published in English for the first time link between these and the accused, they now proceeded to think up a spurious connection between my husband and the notorious spy Cherval. Thus my husband became the bridge, the spurious link, between the theoreticians of Cologne and the men of action, incendiaries and robbers, in London. Stieber and the prosecution expected wonders of this coup. It burst like a bubble. New effects had to be conjured up, hence the tissue of lies at the sitting of 23 October. Everything adduced by the police is untrue. They steal, forge, break into desks, perjure themselves, bear false witness and, withal, claim this licence vis-à-vis communists, who are hors [de] la société**. This and the way in which the police, at their most rascally, are usurping all the functions of the prosecution, pushing Saedt into the background, and submitting unattested scraps of paper, mere rumours, reports and hearsay, as real legally proven facts, as evidence, is truly hair-raising. We here had to supply all proofs of the forgery. Hence my husband had to work all day and late into the night. Affidavits had to be obtained from the publicans, and the handwriting of the alleged minute-takers, Liebknecht and Rings, officially authenticated to provide proof of forgery on the part of the police. Then every one of these things had to be copied out 6-8 times and dispatched by the most divers routes to Cologne, via Frankfurt, Paris, etc., since all letters to my husband as well as all letters from here to Cologneb are opened and detained. The whole thing has now become a struggle between the police on one side and my husband on the other — they blame him for everything, the entire revolution and even the conduct of the trial. Finally Stieber has now declared my husband to be an Austrian spy. In return, my husband looked out a glorious letter, written to him by Stieber in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung days, which is really damning.c We likewise discovered a letter from Becker in which he makes fun of Willich's imbecilities and his 'military conspiracies'.*1 Out of hatred for Becker, Willich gave directions here in London to the witness Lieutenant Hentze, from whom up till now he has been receiving alms. In short, things are about to happen which would seem unbelievable if one wasn't experiencing them oneself. All this business with the police is distracting the public, and hence the jury, from the actual prosecution of the communists, while bourgeois hatred of the dreadful incendiaries is paralysed by the HORROR inspired by the villainy of the police,—so much so that we can now even believe in our friends' acquittal. The struggle against official power, armed as this is with money and every kind of weapon, is not, of course, without interest and will be all the more glorious should we emerge the victors. For on their side there is money, power and everything else, whereas we were often at a loss where to get the paper on which to write our letters, etc., etc.
The enclosed statement was issued today by Freiligrath, Marx, Engels and Wolff.[3] We are sending it to the Tribune today. You could publish it as well.b
Excuse me for such a confused letter but I, too, have had some part in the intrigue and have done so much copying that my fingers are afire. Hence the muddle. Your essay in the Turn-Zeitungc has been much applauded here. My husband thought it first-rate and the style, in particular, exceptionally brilliant. There are others who prefer you in a less theoretical vein and would like you always to remain the same old humorous, light-hearted Cluss.
We have just received from Weerth and Engels whole parcels full of commercial addresses and pseudo-commercial letters so that we can send off the documents, letters, etc.d687
Another load of tremendous scandal has just arrived with the Kölnische. Two further packages are being dispatched at once to commercial addresses. A complete office has now been set up in our house. Two or three people are writing, others running errands, others scraping PENNIES together so that the writers may continue to exist and prove the old world of officialdom guilty of the most outrageous scandal. And in between whiles my 3 merry childrene sing and whistle, often to be harshly told off by their papa. What a bustle! Farewell, dear Mr Cluss, and write again soon to your friends.
By permission of the higher authorities,
Jenny Marx
1906-07 and in full in: Marx and Engels, Published m English m full for the Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 28, f l r s t t i m e
Moscow, 1962
[3] K. Marx and F. Engels, 'Public Statement to the Editors of the English Press'. - b The New-York Daily Tribune did not publish this statement. Its German translation was printed in the New-Yorker Criminal-Zeitung, No. 37, 26 November 1852 and the Republik der Arbeiter, No. 49, 4 December 1852. - c A. Cluss, 'Die materielle Kritik und der moralisierende Standpunkt', Turn-Zeitung, No. 13, 1 October 1852. - d In the original there follows a copy made by Wilhelm Wolff of the statement mentioned above. - e Jenny, Laura and Edgar
7. Jenny Marx to Adolf Cluss. 10 March 1853[688]
For weeks my dear Karl has been indisposed and, during the past few days, has again been suffering from his old liver complaint which almost developed into hepatitis, a disease I find all the more frightening for its being hereditary in his family and the cause of his father's death." Today he is better again, is getting his Tribune article into shape,b and has asked me to write to you. I must at once plunge into a circumstantial tale of woe which almost equals the bad luck of Weydemeyer and Cluss.[689] Please don't be angry with me if I dilate. On 6 December, at the same time as your manuscript copy of the Revelations," my husband sent another one to Schabelitz's son in Basle. Schabelitz was delighted to receive it, wrote saying it was a masterpiece, that it ought to be across the border within a fortnight and that he would run off 2,000 copies, sell them at 15 silver groschen a piece and, after deducting the printing costs (low in Switzerland), share the profits with my husband. We would be justified in counting on at least £30 sterling — with no risk of disappointment. Moreover he intended to send 40 copies to London immediately. For 4 weeks we hear nothing. My husband writes. Answer: the printing was held up by the compositors' Christmas junketing; he intends to be across the border in a fortnight at the latest and to send us 40 copies. All we hear, and this through a third party, is that the smuggling operation has run into unexpected difficulties and that he has had to smuggle across the 1,800 copies in small parcels over a period of 14 days, but that everything will be across by about the beginning of February, when he will charge one of his own clerks with forwarding the pamphlet and distributing it to the booksellers and will send him there, but that he, however, will send us a specimen copy at once. Good. We wait expectantly for 4 weeks. Then my husband writes to inquire, believing that the pamphlets have long since reached the furthest corners of Germany and that all he need now do is draw a bill on him. Then, yesterday, the following letter arrived.d amounting to 2,000 copies, which had been lying in a village on the other side of the border for the past 6 weeks, was intercepted yesterday while being conveyed elsewhere. What will happen now, I do not know; first of all, a complaint lodged by the Baden government with the Federal Council, then, no doubt, my arrest or at least commitment for trial,etc. In either case, a terrific shindy! This briefly for your information; further communications, should I be prevented from making them myself, will reach you through a 3rd party. When writing to me, use the address: A modiste in Basle, etc'
That's all; what do you think of it? He leaves 2,000 copies, i.e. the entire edition, lying in a village for 6 weeks, and then writes to tell us that they have been confiscated. Not a word about the copies for London, nothing about those for Switzerland, etc. Have the things been printed, did the Prussian police buy them for a hefty sum, or God knows what? Suffice it to say that this is the 2nd pamphlet to have been entirely suppressed.[690] Mr Stieber, who has become Chief of Police in Berlin and announced a magnum opus on conspiracies/ etc., and Mr Willich, owner and adminis-trator of the American funds,[691] come out of the affair sain et sauf3; the Cologne trial has been utterly obliterated, the party is still not quite cleansed of all taint, and the government is triumphant! At this moment the pamphlet would have had the most tremendous effect. The hearts of the German police would have quaked and trembled at this THUNDERBOLT falling among them. If we had the means, we would have it printed again au moment0
in Altona in order to enrage the government, but that is impossible. All that can be done now is for you to bring it out as a feuilleton in some paper or other. Could not the type then be used to produce a pamphlet which you could at once send over here? Since printing in Europe has become almost impossible but is now entirely a matter of honour for the party, you should at least have it printed à tout prix6 as a feuilleton. The publication of the pamphlet is now a necessity as against all our enemies, and will, more than anything else, further the interests of the Cologne people and sway public opinion in their favour. Interest in them must be reawakened. Becker's' attempted escape failed only because of lack of interest and outside help. Above all, proof of the pamphlet's existence must be given and this can only be done by its being printed, even if only as a feuilleton on the other side of the ocean.
You can imagine what effect this news had on my husband's state of health, etc.
Jenny Marx
1853
8. Jenny Marx to Frederick Engels. 27 April 1853
Dear Mr Engels,
It is for me a hateful task to have to write to you about money matters. You have already helped us all too often. But this time I have no other recourse, no other way out. I have written to Hagen in Bonn, to Georg Jung, to Cluss, to my mother-in-law,a to my sisterb in Berlin. Ghastly letters! And so far not a word from a single one of them. So there's no other course left open to us. I cannot describe what things are like here. My husband has gone to the City to see Gerstenberg. You can imagine what kind of an errand that must be for him. Meanwhile I am writing these lines. Can you send us something? The baker warned us that there'd be no more bread after Friday. Yesterday when he asked: 'Is MR MARX AT HOME?' Musch managed to fend him off by answering: 'No, HE ANT UPSTAIRS' and then, with three loaves tucked under his arm, shot off like an arrow to tell his Moor about it.
Farewell.
Jenny Marx
9. Adolf Cluss to Joseph Weydemeyer. 15 May 1853
IN NEW YORK
Washington, May 15th 1853
... Marx has written me a very jolly letter in which he says that everyone was greatly amused by my description of the doings of Willich, that 'brother of the guild of misery'.[693] He says that, amid peals of Homeric laughter, they resolved en grand comitéa to wish his 'life' as unhampered a course as possible. He remarks: 'If the lunacy of this drôleb were not intermixed and interlarded with cunning calculations as to how best to fill his belly without doing any work, he would long since have found his way to the lunatic asylum.' In return for my report, Marx is going to send me in his next a copy of the passage relating to Willich in The Great Men of the Exile.
Revolution and Counter-Revolution. Marx says he has no time for translation; if you or I or someone else will undertake to translate it, and if we let him know where he left off, he will take upon himself to write the whole of the conclusion.[694] Marx is of the opinion that as a pamphlet, the thing will not sell, and certainly not pay for itself; he would be perfectly satisfied with a feuilleton. (So whatever remains to be done would be left to us.)
Raveaux's former followers — philistines — long in need of another saint, have put red Beckerc in Raveaux's place. A tout seigneur tout honneurd...
Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 28, Moscow, 1962
10. Adolf Cluss to Joseph Weydemeyer. 2 June 1853[695]
... Today received a letter from Marx's wife which unfortunately I would seem to have placed outside my pocket when on the omnibus. Marx had just returned from Manchester (20th May).[696]
He is delighted with your Reform article3; likewise your introduc-tionb to Hirsch's statement.6 Marx's only regret is that not all our things are able to appear under your auspices, but that the names of the two ciphers from the Hornisse must be given precedence. Otherwise he is satisfied with the Reform. Dronke has at last obtained a post as clerk in Bradford at £10 a month.
Pieper would appear to have been shown the door by Rothschild6 some time ago; the part he played in the communist trial makes it difficult for him to find a berth elsewhere.
Rothschild, was at university with him, has paid him nothing to date, but would do so if he possibly could; Pieper must see to this au moment' having no other recourse.
Eccarius is still not restored. Lupus, due to PRESSURE FROM WITHOUT, is very ill disposed... The Tribune leaders on the EASTERN QUESTION are all by Marx; he wrote them without adding any of the usual NEWS trivialities so that Dana went and changed some of the longer historical expositions, etc., into Tribunese and published them as LEADERS^ The Tribune is a well-spring from which Marx cannot afford to cut himself off, hence he intends to turn a blind eye and would rather we didn't make any direct reference to the fact, even though he resents it—, that his more objective LOOKING pieces appear without his name, while the articles that do appear under his own name are no more than dregs...
11. Adolf Cluss to Joseph Weydemeyer. 14 June 1853[697]
Dear Weyd.,
Just received your letter. As regards Pieper's article, Marx wrote some time ago — 4 months, perhaps — in reply to my apology for making use of one of his letters, saying that I shouldn't get such silly ideas into my head.[698] Though in no way given to flattery he had found that I only made use of his letters on rare occasions and certainly never for my own personal ends; in any case, they were deliberately written for me to make use of. I shouldn't think him so niggardly of his ideas; Pieper and red Wolffa are there, writing down everything he says...
12. Jenny Marx to Frederick Engels. 9 September 1853
Dear Mr Engels,
Imandt was here just now and told us that Dronke was studying Spanish and he believed he had seen him with the little grammar, 'the one that was sold'.b If, dear Mr Engels, you could question Dronke about the wretched little book as soon as you receive this letter, Karl would be much obliged to you; for we might thus be able to clear the matter up to the confusion of Isegrim[3] before he leaves. To you it may seem funny that we should make a thing of this stupid business, but one must have experienced the whole thing to understand it — such crude, boorish tones, such churlish behaviour, such brutal shouting, such outbursts and anger in front of myself and the children. It would be splendid if the sold booklet were in the hands of a bosom friend! But do not mention Imandt's name. It is already very late and I am addressing these lines to your house to make sure they reach you tomorrow. More pleasant news. Bamberger is threatening to take proceedings over the Swiss affair.a Schabelitz has asked him to sue my husband because of a passage in a letter in which Karl promised to pay half the expenses if the thing sold. Please send the letter which you still have in the file.[699] Karl likewise begs you yet again to let him have the notes about the Russian and Turkish troop deployment.b He is continually having to write about the business since it hasn't yet been settled, and the Americans are besotted with the EASTERN
QUESTION.
Today Karl has been forcing himself to write another long article on economies'c and, being very tired, has asked me this evening to take up the pen on his behalf.
Farewell, and warmest regards from us all.
Jenny Marx
Lupus, or so we hear, is leaving tomorrow morning. He has not said good-bye to me and the children.
13. Jenny Marx to Frederick Engels. 24 November 1853
Dear Mr Engels,
I have made out the POSTAL ORDER to William Wolff, with Charles Marx as the sender."
The statements attacking Willich's scrawlb will hardly catch tomorrow's steamer since Miskowsky, 'the missing Russian officer', has not as yet been traced. He lives somewhere in Whitechapel and his address has been mislaid. Nor was it known to Kossuth, whom we approached indirectly. A messenger has just left for Whitechapel. Unluckily for the gallant Willich, the man has been back here for some months, possesses a certificate signed by Kossuth to the effect that he fought in the Hungarian campaign, and will now be able to provide a first-hand account of the duel. 00
Père is BUSY with the next instalment of the Palmerston articled and hopes to receive some small aid tomorrow.
With warmest regards.
Jenny Marx
14. Adolf Cluss to Joseph Weydemeyer. 12 December 1853
Dear W.,
Herewith 1 article 'from Wisconsin"1; I think you'd be well advised to bring it out in two parts, with 'to be continued' in between.
Just received 1 letter from Marx, dated 28TH NOV. Dronke, it seems, has sent you a statement which you should hold back if it is not already too late.a Dronke was supposed to send this statement to Marx in London, instead of which he sent it to you in New York.
Marx has answered Willich at length,*3 in very learned, 'Hegelian' fashion. Splendid, so far as I can see, and plentifully buttressed with documents; I shall probably send you the thing tomorrow, but haven't yet had time to read it through, and so do not know what to do with it. It is voluminous. 20 pages of LARGE NOTE-PAPER. Marx had already written it when my letter arrived informing him that we were taking care of the answer/ He now considers that, since it isn't every day one meets with such a lying codger as Willich, it would be RATHER DISAGREEABLE if the thing had to be shelved. He authorises me to make deletions if his article repeats what we have already said, or conflicts with ours in matters of detail.
More about this when I send you the thing. The accompanying letter, dashed off in great haste, partly by Monsieur and partly by Madame Marx,[701] concludes as follows:
'Yesterday evening (27TH Nov.) the Waschlapskis and Schelmufs-kisd held a meeting.[702] Harney was IN THE CHAIR. The PEOPLE almost tore him to pieces. DOWN, DOWN, RASCAL, TRAITOR, RENEGADE, and he wasn't permitted to TAKE THE CHAIR. PEOPLE jumped onto the platform, everyone was belabouring everyone else, the Schelmufs-kis acted as Harney's GUARDS.'
Again: 'As regards the Reform, Karl has done everything in his power. Pieper, driven by necessity, has gone to work in a French SHOP, where he sells sunshine, i.e. the newly-invented lampe réverbère!" He cannot write just now. Accordingly Karl has roped in Heise and given him a subscription to the reading room since he hadn't got the required penny. He has also written to Germany asking for help.' Treat the bit about Heise as confidential.
Your
Ad. Cluss
15. Jenny Marx to Frederick Engels. End of March 1854
Dear Mr Engels,
Karl asks you to send Lassalle's address by return. You did not return Lassalle's first letter," which gives it.
Warmest regards from the whole family.
Yours
Jenny Marx
16. Jenny Marx to Frederick Engels. 13 May 1854
Dear Mr Engels,
I am sending you herewith a packet of old abusive paperasseb; and with it the very latest ordure by Wiss,c Dulon, etc. Some of it will amuse you. For the past five days Karl has been plagued by rheumatic pains in his teeth, ears and face, so severe that he hasn't been able to sleep a single night and today feels seriously indisposed. Nothing we tried did any good. We went through the whole pharmacopoeia, from Pfänder to Raspail. But still the same terrible pain. Not until tonight was some sweating induced by Spanish fly, opium, etc., and a slight improvement noticeable. He's not in a condition to put pen to paper, but urgently begs you, dear Mr Engels, to be sure and send him an article on Tuesdaya
so that we don't miss another whole week, as we did last. Otherwise it would make too big a hole in the money-box. Cordial regards from the whole family and from
Jenny Marx
Heise and the little man b have written Imandt a quite crazy letter. It reeked of brandy.
17. Jenny Marx to Frederick Engels. 23 May 1854
Dear Mr Engels,
Your articlec has just arrived. It's already been addressed and I shall put it in the post at the same time as this note. Karl was tremendously pleased when he heard the postman's portentous double KNOCK. Voilà Frederik,d £2, we're saved! he cried. Unfortunately he is still very, very unwell and asks me to tell you that he is Lazarus and Peterkin Pint-pot rolled into one. There can be no question of writing. He labours over Gladstone's long speeches and is very annoyed at not being able to write just now when he's got enough material on Mr Gladstone and his SCHEMES. If you possibly can, do concoct something again for Friday.'' Anything will do, Karl says. I truly detest bothering you in this way, but send something if possible.
I enclose herewith the latest dispatch from Cluss and would ask you to return his letter6 and not tell Heise anything about it. The fellow chatters so and, should little Meyen or other eminent men hear anything prematurely, communications to Cluss would at once stop. It's all very amusing and the gentlemen should be allowed to carry on undisturbed.
In his last letter to Imandt, consisting of a whole lot of little snippings glued together, Heise said he had now again given up the military DODGE since the Russians waged war differently from the way the Tribune said; he intended to apply himself henceforward to doux commerced
Karl and I send our heartiest thanks for the articles, and the three little onesd send their love.
Yours
Jenny Marx
Our Edgare is said to be loafing about in New York again and to be coming here and then going on to Germany! What a band of loafers!
First published in: Marx and Engels, Printed according to the original Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXII, Moscow 1929 Published in English for the first time AND INDEXES
Endnotes
[26] took an active part in the Society's work.—14, 195, 217, 226, 336 25 This refers to the workers' society founded in London in January 1852 with
[10] them Engels constantly exchanged views with Marx who read his articles before
[12] of Napoleon's Empire) were restored. The Prince President moved to the royal
[683] Possible alterations in Engels' article of 12 December 1855 (see Note 677).—563 682 Marx sought to get his associates, former editors of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung,
[684] including Weerth, to contribute to Weydemeyer's Die Revolution (see Note
[85] reforms.
[50] Marx returned to his economic studies when he was in London, in the
[685] 2).—567 683 Joseph Weydemeyer left Europe on 1 October 1851. Owing to autumn storms
[686] the voyage lasted 38 days and the ship did not reach New York till 7 November
[688] Frederick Engels, Letters to Americans. 1848-1895, International Publishers, New
[689] York, 1953.—572 685 "pne reference is to a journal which Becker, Weydemeyer and Bürgers planned
[690] to start in the spring of 1851; their plan did not materialise.—575 686 At the sitting of the Cologne jury on 23 October 1852 Stieber presented as
[691] evidence a faked 'Minute-book' (see Note 259) which provided the defence with
[693] safe conveyance of the documents to the defence counsel at the Cologne
[694] Communist Trial, Schneider II, Esser I and von Hontheim. The list of these
[695] addresses is given in Vol. 11 of the present edition, pp. 590-91. See also this
[696] volume, p. 218.—578 688 -phe editors of the present edition do not have the original of this letter at their disposal and it is printed according to a copy in Cluss' letter to Weydemeyer of 28 March 1853.—579 689 An allusion to the fact that financial difficulties prevented Weydemeyer and Cluss from buying up from the printers all the copies of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte printed in New York.— 579 690 Jenny Marx presumably refers to the unsuccessful attempt to publish Marx's and Engels' pamphlet The Great Men of the Exile.—580 691 The American funds—money raised for the so-called German-American revolutionary loan (see Note 27).— 580 692 -y/he excerpt from Cluss' letter to Weydemeyer given here expounds the contents of part of Marx's letter to Cluss, which has not survived. The letter was probably written on about 1 May 1853, when Marx was visiting Manchester.— 582 6 9 3 The reference is to Cluss' letter to Marx of 10 April 1853.— 582 694 Engels planned to publish Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany in German in Die Reform. The last, twentieth, article of this work did not appear in the New-York Daily Tribune and was probably not written (see Note 214).—582 695 The excerpt from Cluss' letter to Weydemeyer given here contains an account of Jenny Marx's letter to Cluss of 20 May 1853 which has not survived.— 583 696 Marx visited Engels in Manchester from 30 April to 19 May 1853.— 583 697 698 700 701
[697] This excerpt from Cluss' letter to Weydemeyer gives the contents of part of
[698] Marx's letter to Cluss which has not survived. The letter may have been written
[699] in February 1853.—584
[701] Jenny Marx presumably asks Engels to return Marx's letter to Jacob Schabelitz
[702] which she mentions here. The letter, which has not been found, was written at the end of November 1852. In his reply to Marx of 1 December Schabelitz agreed to accept Marx's terms for the publication of the pamphlet Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne.—585 The circumstances of the duel between Schramm and Willich referred to here were distorted by the latter in the slanderous article 'Doctor Karl Marx und seine "Enthüllungen"'. Miskowsky was Schramm's second (see present edition, Vol. 12, pp. 494-95, and also Note 360).—586 Karl and Jenny Marx' letter to Cluss has not survived.—587 Probably a slip of the pen. The meetings of Polish refugees were held on 28 and 29 November 1853 (see Note 456)^—587
[3] Weydemeyer received Chapter I of The Eighteenth Brumaire, mentioned