Manchester, 28 November 1859 
7 Southgate 

Dear Moor, 

If I didn’t write last week it was because I had given Lupus all 
the papers; nor did I recover them for several days having, in the 

@ [K. Blind,] “The Grand Duke Constantine to Be King of Hungary’, The Free Press, 
No. 5, 27 May 1859. - > incriminating evidence - ¢ We shall see. - 4 K. Marx, ‘The 
Invasion Panic in England’. 

interval, repeatedly failed to get hold of him. Lupus is of the same 
opinion as myself, namely that Freiligrath’s behaviour hardly 
admits of further party relations with him, but that on purely 
party grounds, and aside from your personal position, you are 
absolutely justified in avoiding any breach for the present s’il y a 
moyen*—it would be a triumph for Kinkel and Co. which they 
would trumpet abroad and exploit for all they were worth. But it’s 
something we shan’t forgive the weak-minded ass. If his relation- 
ship with Fazy really compelled him to make a statement at all, 
Freiligrath ought to have consulted you, which would at any rate 
have resulted in something other than the inane affair which he 
caused to be published in the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung.” He 
would seem to be dead keen on an amnesty, to judge by his 
strenuous denials of all participation in the Volk But his getting 
on to personal terms with Mr Bettziech, receiving him in his own 
house, is something which Lupus, who went with Freiligrath to see 
Bettziech at the time of the How do you do? affair,°" will never 
forgive him. And it really is a dirty trick. As things are now, 
however, it seems questionable whether we can go on much longer 
without an open breach with Freiligrath; he is increasingly subject 
to the literary man’s itch, nor will madame‘ fail to point out morning, 
noon and night that Mr Beta, Kinkel and company do at least 
praise him publicly, whereas all he gets from us even privately is a 
mopicum of recognition, and we can never be relied on to make him 
‘known by reason of his fame’. However, Freiligrath is all too well 
aware that, while Kinkel and Co. may be of use to him in 
peacetime, he would be nothing without us at the moment of 
battle, and that he could never ally himself with our enemies 
without running all manner of unpleasant risks. He will, I think, 
take care not to go too far and will finally pin his hopes on our 
forbearance. 

Your ‘Declaration’ in the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung’ will put 
Blind into a very nasty position. How, without discrediting himself, 
he will lie his way out of the pass his lies have brought him to, I 
fail to see. 

These shabby goings-on must indeed be a sore trial to your wife. 
However, this rubbish, too, will pass and, I hope, soon. Within a 
few weeks it will no doubt be possible to drop Mr Freiligrath and 

2 if possible - > F. Freiligrath, ‘Erklarung’, Aligemeine Zeitung, No. 319 (supple- 
ment), 15 November 1859. - ¢ Ida Freiligrath — 4 Probably an allusion to Nicolas 
Chamfort’s dictum: ‘Celebrity: the advantage of being known by those who don’t 
know you’ (Maximes et Pensées). - ¢ K. Marx, ‘Declaration’. 

leave him to stew in his own juice. But now I must say goodbye 
for today; I am about to go home and shall send an article on the 
RIFLE MOVEMENT” by the night mail. There will be several of them, 
at any rate. ‘ 

Warm regards to your wife and the younc Lapigs. 

Your 
F. E.