{[London,} 13 August 1868 
Dear Frep, 

I hope that these lines will reach you before your departure, for 
there is periculum in mora* 

Firstly, I must send money to Ramsgate, so they can stay there 
another week. As their departure was delayed for weeks after your 
last remittance, smaller domestic debts were paid; on the other 
hand, my wife had to retrieve watches and other things from the 
pawnshop so that they could appear respectable at the watering 
place. 

Secondly, one of the épiciers,” who is owed £6 and a few shillings, 
must be paid this week, since the man is shutting up shop. 

Thirdly, I have already received 2 summons for Queen’s taxes (about 
£8). The toca Taxes are paid, as you know. I absolutely cannot put 
off these sums. 

For two further pressing items—the Lanptorp, who is unfortu- 
nately in London now, and a bill of exchange for £12 payable on 
the 25th of this month—I shall still perhaps receive money in time 
from Germany. 

I have written to my cousins August and Karl Philips in 
Amsterdam and Aachen in order to find out whether they are 
back.'”° It would be a sheer waste of money to go to the continent 
in order to borrow, before one is sure that the people are there. 

For the past week I have not had a wink of sleep and Jlllustre 
Gaudissart* Borkheim, who visited me the day before yesterday to 
take leave, said I really should get rid of my jaundice. He 
entertained me with the story of the £1,000 he is trying to 
blackmail out of Oppenheim. 

In great haste. 

Your 
K. M.