Dear Friend [London,] 25 October 1866

These few lines immediately,

1. to thank you for your efforts;

2. to acknowledge receipt of your last letter and of the preceding ones;

a F, Lassalle, Herr Bastiat-Schulze von Delitzsch der ökonomische Julian, oder: Capital und Arbeit, Ch. 3.

3. you misunderstand how things stand between myself and Engels. He is my closest friend. I keep no secrets from him. If it had not been for him, I would long ago have been obliged to start a ‘trade’. In no circumstances, therefore, would I wish any third person to intercede with him on my account. There are also, of course, certain limits to what he can do.**°

4. Dr Jacobi,* so I am informed by workers, has become quite a good citizen and should not therefore be importuned in any way with my private affairs.

I shall have to see what I can do, but I do see that you have tried everything that was within your power, and therefore entreat you to consider this matter as settled.

I am not writing for The Commonwealth.

Your K. M.

Miquel et Co. will have a long time to wait before they become Prussian ministers.”