London, 17 December 1867 
Dear Frep, 

Wilhelm? returned enclosed. You must be careful in your reply. 
The position is difficult. To pursue an entirely correct course 
would require a much more critical spirit and dialectical skill than 
our Wilhelm possesses.°? We can only restrain him from 
committing really grave blunders. In general, hostility to Prussia is 
the pathos to which alone he owes his verve AnD SINGLENESS OF PURPOSE. 
He has rightly sensed that the true bourgeoisie forms the core of 
the ‘National Liberals’,**? which gives him the opportunity to 
bestow on his political antipathy the more elevated sanction of 
economics. Ira facit poetam> and also gives our Wilhelmchen 
cunning Up TO A CERTAIN POINT. 

The correspondent of The Irishman here is willing to print, if 
you write it in English, a critique of the book‘ about one column 
in length (Ireland must take the proper role in it, however) in that 
Dublin paper as a contribution under his own name. I shall send 
you a few copies of the paper and you will see what needs to be 
done. 

The Zukunft has a talent for misprints* which is all the odder as 
Dr Guido Weiss does after all have the original. 

I have a small but infinitely irritating carbuncle on my left 
buttock. ; 

And if the noble fellow has no bum, 
On what does he propose to sit?¢ 

Yesterday I gave a 1'/, hour lecture on Ireland at our 
German Workers’ Society (though a further 3 German workers’ 
societies were represented, asour 100 people in all), as ‘standing’ is 
the easiest posture for me just now. 

Salut. Vouk 
K. M.