The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-21
A MARKHAM
ANECDOTE.
London, June 10, 81.

To DIR. L. Kugelmann,
Dear Friend:
The hardness of this letter leaves
me open to the more or less well
grounded" suspicion of being bad
fellow" AS a basis for mitigation, l
merely need to state that it is only a
few days that | am living in London
In the interval l was at Engels in
Manchester. But you and your dear
wife know me well enough now to find
letter-sinning normal with me. In
spite of that | was with you every
day. l count my stay in Hanover
among the most beautiful and hap
piest GASES in the desert of life.
In Hamburg 1 had no other adven-
ture, except, in spite of all precau-
tionary measures, to get acquainted
with Mr. William Mari. Judging from
his personal manner, he is, as chris
tian translator of Lassalle, of course
worth much less. Mr.. Niemann also
played during the few days that I
still remained there. But | was much
too spoiled by the society in Hanover
to want to be present at a theater
performance in Tess good company.
So Mr.. Niemann slipped me by.
The passage from Hamburg to Lon
don, discounting somewhat raw
weather the first day, was on the
whole favorable. A few hours before
London German young lady, who had
already struck me with her military
bearing, declared that she warsed to
leave that same evening from London
for Weston-on-the-Sea and did not
know how to begin to do it with her
voluminous baggage. The case was
so much the worse since helping hands
are missing in England on the Sab
bath. / had the young lady show me
the railroad station to which she was
to go in London. Friends had written
same on a card. 1t was the North
western station, past which l had to
, ride, too. AS a good knight, l there
fore offered to let the young lady off
at the place. Accepted. On closer re-
Election, however, it occurred to me
that Weston-On-the-Sea is southwest,
the station to be passed by me, on the
contrary, and the one written down
for the young lady northwest. / con-
suited the sea captain. Right. It
proved that she was to be deposited
in part of London lying in an en-
tirely opposite direction from mine.
Still l had been engaged and had to
make bonnie mine a mauvais jeu. We
arrived at in the afternoon.
brought the donna errante to her sta
ton, where ] learn that her train
doesn't leave until p. m. So l was
in for it and had six hours to kill with
mademoiselle by promenading in
Hyde Park, stopping in ice shops, etc.
1t turned out that her name was Elisa
beth Won Puttkammer, niece Of Bis
marck, with whom she had Just spent
a few weeks in Berlin. She had the
entire army list with her, since this
family provides our brave army"
abundantly with gentlemen of honor
and taille. She was a cheerful, edu-
Gated girl, but aristocratic and black
white up to the tip of her nose. She
was not little astonished when she
learned that she had fallen into fred"
hands. / consoled her, however, to
the effect that our rendezvous would
pass without loss of blood, and saw
her depart safe and sound for her
destination. Imagine what food this
would be for blind or other vulgar
democrats, my conspiracy with Bis
marck! Ado,
Your Karl Marx.
(Note-April-May, 1867, Marx trav-
eled to Hamburg for the purpose o.
handing over the manuscript OF Gap
itap to his publisher, Meissner, and
In visit DIR Kugelmann in Hanover