Dear Mohr,

Enclosed the 2 Ludlows & the 2 “Schweinereien” back. From Wilh. you send me only the few lines addressed to me, not the ones to you to which you refer. If Wilh. can do nothing more than that, it is still a wonder that he did not come off worse in Barmen. I shall send you in a few days reports from the Zukunft on the General Assembly, which appeared very late and from which it emerges that the ground in the Swiss Association was already thoroughly prepared and the rebellion would have broken out even without Wilh. The Ludlow correspondence very useful. Many thanks for the Rameau, which will give me much pleasure. I am now reading almost nothing, in order at last to set my eye to rights; I have also reduced my work at the office. Wilh. is sorely mistaken if he thinks I would send him the Peasant War on the strength of such vague phrases, so that he might afterwards suddenly turn up and cry: if I don’t send such and such an amount of money, the last sheets cannot be printed. His letter is simply silly and his presumption that you should pay his fees is impudent. The local stipendiary magistrate Fowler, who at that time had the Fenians brought into court chained to each other, has resigned his post. That is to say, he has eloped, leaving behind his wife along with 2 children, with the wife of the chairman of the Quarter Sessions, Milne (daughter of the late rich banker Brooks and worth £80,000 in her own right), who for her part abandons her 5 children to her dear husband. Great consternation among the philistines.

Salut
Yours
F. E.

This last story can only be explained etymologically—fowler from fowl = bird.