[London,] 12 February 1872 

My dear Friend, 

Herewith the notes: 

Old Crémieux has been in London where he put up at the 
Golden Cross Hotel with a gentleman whom he caused to be 
entered in the hotel register as his son, but who is in reality Mr 
Truchy, a former captain on the General Staff, a Bonapartist in 
search of a fortune, and editor of the Liberté (Girardin’s), to which 
he was appointed by Badinguet* and for which he writes military 
articles under the nom de plume of Mousselerés. 

These gentry were in London to settle some business with the 
man at Chislehurst.” The result of the transactions was old man 
Crémieux’s nomination as one of the members of the Regency of 
the Empire (in the event of Badinguet’s death). 

Yours ever, 

Karl Marx