[London,] 4 August 1868 

Dear Frep, 

How is your eye? 

You will probably have received the Eichhoff stuff.* In the 
Zukunft there are ‘Economic Letters’> singing the praises of my 
book. In fact these letters are largely cribbed from the book. In 
the Social-Demokrat the Executive of the General Association of 
German Workers is urged by the presidium to invite me as a guest 
of honour to the congress at Hamburg at the end of August.* 

A few days ago I wrote to Meissner™ to find out at last where 
and how. 

Kugelmann has written me a few lines saying that the chamber 
of commerce and the polytechnical school in Hanover have 
ordered a number of copies of my book. 

In the meantime, I am really more bothered by PRIVATE ECONOMY OF, 
as the English say, domestic economy, than by political economy. My 
LANDLORD has dunned me and, unfortunately for me, is staying ror 
SOME TIME AT London. I have also been forced to sign diverse smaller 
bills of exchange, etc. 

The filthy French branch” has created a fine scandal for us. 
The Pyatists have published a blame‘ of the conseil général in the 
Cigale. Their channel was the infamous Vésinier. We ignored this 
VOTE OF CENSURE and simply passed 4 Uordre du jour.’ There followed a 
MEETING Of the Frencu branch where there were fisticuffs. Dupont, 
Jung, Lafargue, Johannard, Lassassie and various others have quit 
this gang of scoundrels. This rabble now amounts to a total of 
perhaps 15 persons, although they confront us as the ‘souveraineté 
du peuple. We are ‘des endormeurs’, ‘des ambitieux’” etc. Apart from 

a W. Eichhoff, Die Internationale Arbeiterassociation. Ihre Gründung, Organisation, 
politisch-sociale Thatigkeit und Ausbreitung. See also Note 79. - > ‘Oekonomische 
Briefe’, Die Zukunft, Nos 292 and 298, 25 and 29 July 1868. - © the first volume of 
Capital-4 ‘An die Vorstands-Mitglieder des Allgemeinen deutschen Arbeiter- 
Vereins’ (signed: W. Real), Der Social-Demokrat, No. 90, 2 August 1868. See also 
Note 130.-¢ censure -! to next business - &‘sovereignty of the people’ 
- h thumbugs’, ‘the ambitious’ 

the little bit of scandal which these Spiegelbergs are making in that 
obscure Belgian paper, they are naturally Nowhere. Nothing is 
more grotesque than the way in which this mob play Jacobin 
Club." 

Apropos. Moses’ article ! has, after all, turned up. It is in the 
hands of Massol, who will print it shortly in his Morale 
indépendante, now that this has changed its skin to become a 
political journal. Reclus will ditto wade in with his Coopération, now 
that this ditto has be-butterflied itself into a political paper. 

My wife went to Ramsgate in advance on Monday’ to prepare 
the quarters. The gang will follow tomorrow. 

Lafargue is only free from tomorrow. In the meantime, he has 
been operating like mad as assistant to the Home surgeon of 
St. Bartholomew’s. Yesterday, e.g., from 9 in the morning until 11 
in the evening. Woe to the corpus vile? of male or female kind on 
which he gets his practice. 

Best greetings from Tussy to you and Lizzy. The child declares 
to all and sundry that she is ready to emigrate to Manchester. 
MeEanwuite she is teased here with the Nickname “THE POOR NEGLECTED 
NATION’ .“ 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 

How do you translate cravet as distinct from sanp and runt? And 
how peat as distinct from soc? Incidentally, there are perhaps 
6 further different names for what are, more or less, nuances of 
peat-ground in the ‘poor NEGLECTED COUNTRY’. 

Finally, how do you manage to live in this heat? I would like 
best to hang on a tree in the air. 

P. S. Now, when the Germans will join the ‘International 
Workingmen's ASSOCIATION’ en masse, with the Association, for the time 
being, filling out at least the boundaries of its main territory — 
though it is still thin on the ground—my plan is that the Genera 
Councu. should move to Geneva for the next year''” and that we 
should function here only as the Britannic Counci. It appears a 
shrewd move to me if the proposal comes from us. At the same 

a 3 August - > living body - ¢ An allusion to Tussy’s Irish sympathies. 

time, it will show the jackasses in Paris, etc., that we are in no way 
anxious for this pleasant dictatorship. Qu’en penses tu?*