[London,] 14 October 1867 

Dear Frep, 

You will see from the enclosed letter No. II from Juch that, 
although Achilles* is dead, Beta is still alive. Juch’s letter was 
probably provoked by the fact that Beta speaks well of Kinkel but 
not Freiligrath, and that Beta’s article also contains some malicious 
remarks directed at Juch. When Freiligrath and Juch form an 
alliance, they are incapable of producing even a bad joke. For 
which reason I am to be incited to action, being ‘thoroughly 
venomous’, as Beta calls me in that vile scrawl of an article he 
wrote: ‘Die Deutschen in London’, which begins with the Norman 
Conquest and ends with that oily Jew Bender as the sole epitome 
of mankind in England. 

This is about the 6th time now that Mr Juch has offered me his 
stale columns” for the purpose of ‘self-glorification’, for him a well 
proven tactic which he has used, successfully of course, with Blind, 
Kinkel, Freiligrath, and Heintzmann. I wrote him a few lines 
only.'"' And not to Mr. Freiligrath’s liking either. I told him 
privatim of what happened at Beta’s How do you do? editorial office 
when I went there in the company of Ziegenhainer, Freiligrath, 
and our W. Wolff.°*' So as to give him one bad joke for his 
trouble, I told him that I would not allow Kinkel the credit for 
being more than the a and » to this Beta. 

Typical of Juch: he sends me Payne’s people’s calendar*” which 
contains the corpus delicti (like all such abominations in Germany, 
Gartenlaube, etc., this calendar has 250,000 subscribers), along with 
the inevitable invoice for 11d., which I immediately enclosed with 
my reply. Though admittedly he was once more on the threshold 
of the Banxrurrcy Court and has with great difficulty serriep with 
his creditors for monthly payments of 2s. 6d. in the f£. 

How shall I answer the enclosed from Nahmer?*” 

Has Borkheim sent you the Courrier francais with the translation 
of my preface‘? I am asking because poor Lafargue is on 
tenterhooks for ‘your verdict——every day. The Belgian Liberté 

4 Ferdinand Lassalle - > in the Hermann - © to the first volume of Capital 

arrived today, having ditto printed the préface, with very ‘fulsome’ 

PREAMBLE,” in which it reminds the Belgian government of my 

EXPULSION.”°© 

I had already replied to Liebknecht,'" but had to write to him 
again today because I only today received the 2 acts relating to the 
Trave Unions Commission.°™ Your tips? attached to my letter. 

Salut. Comptiments TO Mrs Burns. 

Your 
Moro