[London,] 14 May 1869 

Dear Frep, 

My wife will come back only sometime next week, so I cannot be 
in Manchester at THE OPPORTUNE TIME. 

Eichhoff left yesterday. His proposal— quant a° the Peasant 
War— is that his brother“ should publish the stuff and that he pay 
out the balance on seuarr of the ‘International’ at the next Book 
Fair, after subtracting his commission and costs.* He says: as far as 
his brother is concerned, you may regard the proposal as definitive. 

With regard to Herr Vogt: When Liebknecht was arrested in 
Berlin, he left everything in confusion and, ditto, he did not clear 
up at the time of his expulsion. So ‘he cannot remember’ what 
happened to Vogt! Eichhoff finally discovered that a second-hand 
bookseller had been advertising the book for 2 years in his sales 
catalogue. He visited the fellow, named Kampfmeyer. He had sold 
them all, and ‘ditto cannot remember’ how the books came into his 
hands. So everything Liebknecht told us was—fiction, to put it 
mildly. 

a Henry Ermen -> Anton Ermen -¢ regarding - ¢ Albert Eichhoff - ¢ See this 
volume, pp. 211 and 237. -f Ibid., pp. 106, 142, 189. 

The press here is lousy. First, they have suppressed like one 
man every word of our Belgian missive* (after deliberately 
publishing last week some stupid lines in the sense of Cherval, 
probably written by the ‘police member’ of the Brussels special 
committee); and not only that, they have ditto like one man 
suppressed our Address to the American Labour Union” (written by 
me, approved last Tuesday‘), although this is against war between 
the Unrtep States and England.**' But there are things in it that 
these blackguards do not like. 

Salut. 
Your 
K. M.