London, 6 November 1869 

Dear Fred, 

I send you 1 Pionier, 1 Volksstaat, and various copies of 
Social-Demokrat. 

You will see from the Pionier that Heinzen believes I only wrote 
Capital so that he should not understand it.**” 

Schweitzer — utilising Liebknecht’s anxiety with regard to his 
democratic friends’—is behaving as though polemics against 
landed property were the first word in the Lassallean creed! Quelle 
impudence! Incidentally, Bonhorst did him good service in an issue 
of the Volksstaat that I cannot find.** I don’t know whether you 
receive the Volksstaat. 

Bonhorst’s arrest is good.‘ 

There could be nothing more ridiculous than the respectable 
people’s fear concerning the Queen’s procession today.“ Every- 

a E. Wakefield, An Account of Ireland, Statistical and Political. - > See this volume, 
p. 364. 

where overrun by police as in France. The whole alarm was 
produced by a hoax. A few agitators have had their fun in the past 
few weeks, circulating handbills calling on the starving workers of 
the East End to present themselves en masse to the Queen, and de 
ne pas laisser passer la reine.’ 

My family has just returned from the spectacle. Icy coldness 
amongst the public. Madame is said to have stared fuming-mad 
and _ ultra-crabby. 

I shall send you, in the next few days, a volume I happened to 
pick up, which contains all sorts of pamphlets on Ireland. Those by 
Ensor (whom I also quoted in Capital) contain many piquant 
points.” Ensor was a political economist of English origin (his father 
sull lived in England when Ensor was born), Protestant and, 
despite all this, one of the most resolute repzarers before 1830. 
Being himself indifferent to religious things, he can defend 
Catholicism with wit against the Protestants. The first pamphlet in 
the book is by Arthur O’Connor. I had expected rather more of it, 
since this O’Connor played an important role in 1798,*” and I 
have found good articles by him about Castlereagh’s administra- 
tion in Cobbett’s Political Register. Tussy should sometime look 
through Cobbett, for something there about Ireland. 

This week Tussy and I lost 3 days putting my workroom in 
order. It had become jumbled to the frontiers of possibility. 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 
"Tussy SENDS HER BEST COMPLIMENTS TO THE FAMILY.