[Ramsgate,] 15 August 1870 
36 Hardres Street 

Dear FRep, 

You will see from The Daily News—and it is reprinted in today’s 
Pall Mall*—that an EMINENT writer IS ABOUT TO ISSUE AN ENGLISH PAMPHLET 
in favour of the annexation of Alsace by Germany. 

a The Pall Mall Gazette, No. 1717, 15 August 1870. 

The EMINENT writer who has caused this notice about himself to 
appear in The Daily News is of course none other than ex-student 
Karl Blind. This miserable wretch could really stir up a lot of 
trouble in the English press at this moment with his intrigues. 

Since you have some influence in the Pall Mall now, you must 
tear the rubbish to pieces as soon as it appears, and really flay the 
beast alive. 

Between ourselves, the Prussians could bring off a great diploma- 
tic coup if—without demanding an inch of French soil for 
themselves—they were to insist on the return of Savoy and Nice 
to Italy and of the territory neutralised by the 1815 treaties to 
Switzerland. No one could raise any objections to that. However, 
it is none of our business to offer advice on these territorial 
exchanges. 

The family is amusing itself here royally. Tussy and Jennychen 
never come out of the sea and are building up a good stock of 
health. For my part, I am lying more or less fallow thanks to the 
rheumatism and the sleepless nights. 

Salut. 
Your 
K. M.