{London,] 7 June 1864 
Dear Frederick, 

Have received your photogram, also those of Lupus. I need ar 
reast 4 more copies of the latter. Your photogram is excellent. The 

4 The London Gazette - » See this photograph between p. 538 and p. 539.- © Probably 
Urquhart 

children say that it makes you look a ‘pleasant subject’.2 As the 
new photograms we intended to have taken have not yet 
materialised, little Jenny yesterday sent you the glass thing. The 
Dagbladet received with THanks. 

The enclosed letter from Liebknecht which I got yesterday will 
interest you in several respects. You should place it in the archives, 
like the other letters of this kind I send you. I immediately replied 
to L., generally commending him for his attitude and only 
reprimanding him for the silly stipulation—our collaboration—he 
made in regard to the proposed publication of Lassalle’s parer— 
now happily abandoned.** I explained that, while we consider it 
politic to give Lassalle a completely free rein for the time being, 
we cannot identify ourselves with him in any way.... In the course 
of this week I shall send him (Liebknecht) some money. The poor 
devil seems to be doing damned badly. He has given a very good 
account of himself and his continued sojourn in Berlin is most 
important to us. 

Borkheim showed me a letter from the great Orges, presently in 
Vienna. O. intimates that ‘softening of the brain’ has ‘got the 
better’ of the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung, that ‘particularism’ 
rather than “Teutonism’ holds sway over the paper, that one of the 
four proprietors of the Augsburg A. Z. had ‘insulted’ him (the 
‘great Orges’) ‘almost personally’, that his hands had long been 
tied and he had finally resigned, etc. Serves O. ricut. The fellow 
treated us vilely over the Vogt affair.” 

Borkheim has given me very exact particulars in writing, 
authenticated on the spot, concerning progress on the Suez Canal. 
I shall see that Daud Pasha‘ is advised of the same. 

As for the Danish affair, the Russians are in a very difficult 
position. They drove Prussia into the war by promising her the 
earth and, as a quid pro quo for Prussia’s help, past and present, 
over the Polish business,”” held out great prospects in regard to 
Schleswig-Holstein. Needless to say, handsome William,* now that 
he looks upon himself as William THe Conqueror, cannot be fobbed 
off in the same way as his brilliant predecessor.*°” As for 
Palmerston, his hands are tied by the Queen.* Bonaparte, whom 
the Russians and their Pam wanted to use as a scapegoat to 
propitiate the Germans, Has REASONS oF His own for playing the 
deaf-mute. Come to that, aside from a possible secret treaty with 
Prussia, the Russians are now chiefly concerned with ‘German 

a In the original ‘anjenehmer Jejenstand’ instead of ‘angenehmer Gegenstand’. 
b See this volume, pp. 10, 13-14. - © Urquhart - ¢ William I - © Victoria 

sympathies’. It is therefore possible that, under sucu circumstances, 
they will ‘sacrifice’ Schleswig-Holstein, just as, in the 3rd partition 
of Poland, Catherine II declared the cession of the present 
kingdom of Poland to the Prussians to be a great sacrifice on her 
part—with the mental reservation, of course, that, when the time 
came, the sacrifice would be retrieved.”'’ The outrageous step the 
Russians have now taken in the Caucasus,°" watched by the rest of 
Europe with idiotic indifference, virtually compels them—and 
indeed makes it easier for them—to turn a blind eye to what is 
happening elsewhere. These 2 affairs, the suppression of the 
Polish insurrection and the annexation of the Caucasus, I regard 
as the two most important events to have taken place in Europe 
since 1815. Pam and Bonaparte can now say that they have not 
ruled in vain, and, if the Schleswig-Holstein war 572 has served no 
other purpose than to hoodwink Germany and France about those 
two great events, it will have done its job for the Russians, 
whatever the outcome of the London Conference.*”” You will see 
from Liebknecht’s letter that the Prussian liberal press is too 
cowardly even so much as to remark on the continued surrender 
of Polish refugees by the Prussians. Bismarck has killed it stone 
dead with the Schleswig-Holstein business. 

The American news looks very good to me; I was particularly 
delighted by today’s leader in The Times, in which it is proved that 
Grant has been continually beaten and may perhaps be punished 
for his defeats—with the capture of Richmond! 

Salut. 
Your 
Moor