Enclosed: Liebknecht back. What a lame business this is with Schweitzer. He is to recognise 1) you, 2) the International Working Men’s Association! Wilhelmchen seems to me once again not to have been able to combat his propensity for stupidities. Incidentally, you see that Sch. did boast with your letters after all. As for L.’s promises concerning Nuremberg and Schweitzer’s Swiss workers, I shall wait for performance before giving an opinion.

Enclosed now a letter from Kugelmann. The matter with Keil is very capital, if indeed Kertbeny is not telling a few fibs. In any case, I sat down and in the greatest haste scribbled the enclosed screed in as Beta-like a form as befits this filthy rag, and I ask you forthwith for your glosses on it so that we can send the thing off without further ado and strike while the iron is hot. We must as little despise this piece of humbug as the tricks through Siebel’s mediation. And how badly the Kinkels, Freiligraths, and Blinds &c. will be vexed; but the philistine, as you know, believes in his Gartenlaube, and it will greatly impress Meissner. It will also give your wife great amusement – I think it best you keep it secret from her for the time being, on account of possible disappointment, and surprise her with the finished sheet. It is good that, owing to the delay of the article as a result of Beesly’s absence, I am getting a bit of time. Time for the second one. My eye still gets easily irritated during night work and pains me the whole day afterwards.

Best greetings to your wife, the girls, and Lafargue together with his wife.
In haste,
Your F. E.