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[London,] 20 July 1867 

Dear Freiligrath, 

I am not a regular reader of German literary trash, but I cannot 
prevent friends in Germany from occasionally sending me 
excerpts containing personal references to me. Thus, yesterday I 
received al] the passages referring to myself in a publication by a 
certain Rasch entitled ‘Zw6lf Streiter der Revolution’. I should be 
obliged to you for an explanation of the following?: 

a See next letter. - > G. Struve and G. Rasch, Zwélf Streiter der Revolution, p. 61. 

‘Freiligrath had, etc., broken off relations with Marx entirely; @ quite 
unpardonable action on Marx’s part, about which I wish to say no more here, had 
been the last straw. It can only be explained as due to the obnoxious character of a 
man like Marx. I was so indignant about it that one day I asked Freiligrath for 
details, but he tactfully passed over it.’ 

Your 
K. M.