21 April 1868. Dear Fred, Best thanks for the £10. Yesterday I went for a walk again and just now little Jenny comes to drive me out once more, under the pretext that you had entrusted her with supervision over me. The arm is in order again, only the healing itch remains. For years now I have made the strange observation that the urine, which in my normal condition deposits lime or whatever it may be, becomes quite clear when I have the carbuncles. In fact the mineral deposit is now reappearing. Perhaps Gumpert can give information on this. Apropos. Wilhelm now also sends me his little paper. How true to his convictions the man is, to call my Herr Vogt a “meritorious book”, instead of saying that there are many poor jokes in it. Then: the Prussians persecute Hanoverians who were “loyal to their king”! Then, in reference to Edgar Bauer on the payment of the South German press, that, if things go on like this, “all” honourable men (cabbage-squires, parsons, democrats, the Elector of Hesse, etc.) will unite against Prussia. Poor Wilhelm! Blind has again brought off one of his great coups. By means of a servile letter he has wrung a reply out of Juárez, which today also appears in the “Courrier Français”. It is time to hit this clown on the head for his buffooneries. Salut Your KM