{[London,] 12 January 1855 

Dear Frederic, 

Yesterday I sent the report on trade and commerce to the 
Tribune* and must now deliver two more articles if I am to pay off 
my overdraft with the fellows. There are two sailings next week, 
on Tuesday and Friday,” and it would be most desirable if you 
could let me have an article on un sujet quelconque’ by Tuesday. 

My wife is approaching the catastrophe with a firm tread. 

Nothing new here. G6tz has written to Sidney Herbert asking 
for an ‘officer’s brevet’ in the apochryphal ‘Foreign Legion’.°” 
Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 
Wi First Russian Edition, Vol. XXII, F ; . : 
oe Pee as Published in English for the first 
time