[London,] 20 November 1876 

Dear Bracke, 

Enclosed the first French sheet for Mlle Isolde Kurz for her 
sample translation; the latter must be returned to me at the same time 
as the French original (for purposes of comparison).'™ 

It is Lissagaray’s opinion—since his book will be out by the 
beginning of January, whereas the difficulties over the translation 
will cause a delay—that it would be better after all to publish the 
German edition by instalments. 

Also enclosed the great Guillaume’s missive.”"7 What 1 find 
particularly amusing is ‘que pensent les socialistes de langue 
frangaise’.* These socialistes ‘de langue francaise’ are, of course, 
wholly embodied in the Reclus brothers (secret co-founders of the 
Alliance’ but otherwise unknown so far as socialist works are 
concerned) and De Paepe, who is Dutch by birth but in other 
respects Belgian. 

I hope you will pull it off at the elections; a demonstration of 
this kind on the part of the peasants would be significant.” 

Yours, 
K. M.