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His father's warning had no discernible effect. Years later, in London, Marx went on “many a pub crawl.”<ref>Francis Wheen, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=3KOyuSakn80C Karl Marx: A Life]'' (W. W. Norton & Company, 2001) ISBN 0393321576, pp. 6, 74. Cf. Jack Newcombe, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=8VMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105#v=onepage&q&f=false The Karl Marx Memorial Pub Crawl]," ''Life'', October 25, 1968, pp. 105-106; "[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/86431.stm Cheers to Karl Marx], BBC, 1 May, 1998; Richard Newberry, "[http://www.lastampa.it/_web/CMSTP/tmplrubriche/giornalisti/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=145&ID_articolo=74&ID_sezione=308&sezione=A London Pub Crawl with Karl Marx]," ''La Stampa'', November 26, 2007</ref> On one of these, Marx (by then a husband and father himself nearly 40 years old),<ref>Boris Nicolaievsky and Otto Maenchen-Helfen, (Trans. Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher), ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=4rbH49xtcpkC Karl Marx: Man and Fighter]'' (London: Methuen, 1936) ISBN 1406727032, p. 40</ref> accompanied by Wilhelm Liebknecht and Edgar Bauer, drank in no less than 18 different pubs. In one of these, Marx's “inebriated comments”<ref>N. Ann Davis, Richard Keshen and Jeff McMahan, eds., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=DEQNjMMF4tkC Ethics and Humanity: Themes from the Philosophy of Jonathan Glover]'' (Oxford University Press, 2010) ISBN 0195325192, p. 278</ref> that Germany “would yet outclass all other nations” nearly got them, once again, into a fight. They fled into the street where, according to Liebknecht, “we broke four or five street lamps.”<ref>Wilhelm Liebknecht (Trans. Ernest Untermann), ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=kEYv3uqzDvsC Karl Marx: Biographical Memoirs]'' (Chicago: C. H. Kerr & company, 1901), p. 150</ref>
His father's warning had no discernible effect. Years later, in London, Marx went on “many a pub crawl.”<ref>Francis Wheen, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=3KOyuSakn80C Karl Marx: A Life]'' (W. W. Norton & Company, 2001) ISBN 0393321576, pp. 6, 74. Cf. Jack Newcombe, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=8VMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105#v=onepage&q&f=false The Karl Marx Memorial Pub Crawl]," ''Life'', October 25, 1968, pp. 105-106; "[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/86431.stm Cheers to Karl Marx], BBC, 1 May, 1998; Richard Newberry, "[http://www.lastampa.it/_web/CMSTP/tmplrubriche/giornalisti/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=145&ID_articolo=74&ID_sezione=308&sezione=A London Pub Crawl with Karl Marx]," ''La Stampa'', November 26, 2007</ref> On one of these, Marx (by then a husband and father himself nearly 40 years old),<ref>Boris Nicolaievsky and Otto Maenchen-Helfen, (Trans. Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher), ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=4rbH49xtcpkC Karl Marx: Man and Fighter]'' (London: Methuen, 1936) ISBN 1406727032, p. 40</ref> accompanied by Wilhelm Liebknecht and Edgar Bauer, drank in no less than 18 different pubs. In one of these, Marx's “inebriated comments”<ref>N. Ann Davis, Richard Keshen and Jeff McMahan, eds., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=DEQNjMMF4tkC Ethics and Humanity: Themes from the Philosophy of Jonathan Glover]'' (Oxford University Press, 2010) ISBN 0195325192, p. 278</ref> that Germany “would yet outclass all other nations” nearly got them, once again, into a fight. They fled into the street where, according to Liebknecht, “we broke four or five street lamps.”<ref>Wilhelm Liebknecht (Trans. Ernest Untermann), ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=kEYv3uqzDvsC Karl Marx: Biographical Memoirs]'' (Chicago: C. H. Kerr & company, 1901), p. 150</ref>
In his letters to his son at university, Heinrich makes repeated reference to what would become a dominant theme of Marx's life: his economic incompetence. On this score, the letters tell a sorry tale:
* “Your accounts, dear Karl, are... disconnected and inconclusive. If only they had been shorter and more precise, and the figures properly set out in columns, the operation would have been very simple. One expects order even from a scholar, and especially from a practical lawyer.... I enclose a money order for 50 talers...”<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/letters/papa/1836-fl1.htm Letter from Heinrich Marx to son Karl], 1836, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/ Collected Works]'' (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/volume01/index.htm Vol. I] (Trans. Robert Dixon), pp. 648-652</ref>
* “I sent... 50 talers. With what you took with you, that makes 160 talers.... I am convinced that it is possible to manage with less... But no more under any condition... I enclose a draft on... the lottery office in the university building; you will get money there, as m[uch as] you need.”<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/letters/papa/1836-fl2.htm Letter from Heinrich Marx to son Karl], March 18, 1836, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/ Collected Works]'' (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/volume01/index.htm Vol. I] (Trans. Robert Dixon), pp. 652-653</ref>
* “You are receiving 100 talers herewith and, if you ask for it, you will receive the rest... You have not kept your word to me—you remember your promise... At the moment I could not send you any more. In the next few days you will probably receive 20 talers through Rabe.”<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/letters/papa/1836-fl3.htm Letter from Heinrich Marx to son Karl], about May or June 1836, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/ Collected Works]'' (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/volume01/index.htm Vol. I] (Trans. Robert Dixon), pp. 652-653</ref>
* “Please, dear Karl, write at once, but write frankly, without reserve and truthfully. Calm me and your dear, kind mother, and we will soon forget the little monetary sacrifice.”<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/letters/papa/1836-fl4.htm Letter from Heinrich Marx to son Karl], July 1, 1836, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/ Collected Works]'' (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/volume01/index.htm Vol. I] (Trans. Robert Dixon), pp. 655-656</ref>
* “For the time being I am sending you herewith 50 talers. You must at present be able to estimate approximately the amount you absolutely need each year, and that is what I should like to know.”<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/letters/papa/1836-flb1.htm Letter from Heinrich Marx to son Karl], November 9, 1836, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/ Collected Works]'' (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/volume01/index.htm Vol. I] (Trans. Robert Dixon), pp. 661-663</ref>
* “Enclosed a money order for 50 talers. If you prefer me to look for a firm there to make an arrangement with you, you must tell me approximately the monthly sum I should fix for you. By now you must be able to say what it amounts to with one thing and another.”<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/letters/papa/1836-flb2.htm Letter from Heinrich Marx to son Karl], December 28, 1836, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/ Collected Works]'' (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/volume01/index.htm Vol. I] (Trans. Robert Dixon), pp. 661-663</ref>
* “I enclose herewith a letter of credit. It is for a higher amount than you yourself asked, but I did not want to have it altered, because now I trust you not to use more than is necessary.”<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/letters/papa/1837-fl1.htm Letter from Heinrich Marx to son Karl], February 3, 1837, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/ Collected Works]'' (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/volume01/index.htm Vol. I] (Trans. Robert Dixon), pp. 667-670</ref>
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