In a letter to Friedrich Engels from August 14, 1857, Jenny Marx writes: "A few evenings ago that clown Edgar Bauer came to see us; truly a dried cod — without any cod-liver oil and on top of that with pretensions to wit. So frightful were his efforts that I almost fainted, while Karl was sick — not just figuratively but in fact." Cf. Marx/Engels Collected Works. Vol. 40. Moscow (Progress Publishers), p. 565. Published online at: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/letters/jenny/57_08_14.htm.
