General Council of the International Working Men's Association, 256, High Holborn, London, W.C. London, 19 March, 1870. Dear Fred, Enclosed the *Marseillaise*, which however must be returned along with the earlier one. I have not yet read it myself. The article was written by Jennychen and myself together, because she had no sufficient time at her disposal. This is also the reason why she does not answer your letter and has Mrs. Lizzy convey her thanks for the shamrock through me provisionally. From the enclosed letter to Jenny from Pigott you will see that Mrs O’Donovan, to whom Jenny sent a private letter, along with 1 *Mars.*, took her for a gentleman, although she signed herself Jenny Marx. Today, at Jennychen’s request, I answered Pigott and took the opportunity to explain to him briefly my views of the Irish Question. Your hint about Bruce’s falsification already used in the letter sent yesterday by J. to the *Mars.* We have Knox’s and Pollock’s Report, (but had not looked it up) and ditto ‘Things not generally known’. In return you oblige me, if you would send by return: 1) Lassalle’s work against Schulze-Delitzsch and 2) the book by the mad Friesen ‘Clement’. Because of the sensation that J.’s second letter (which contained the condensed translation of O’Donovan’s letter) caused in Paris and London, the repulsive and obtrusive (but very fluent with mouth and pen) Talandier has not been able to sleep. He had denounced the Irish as catholic idiots. He denounces in the *Marseillaise*. He now takes, equally fullmouthed, their side in a review of what the *Times*, *Daily Telegraph* and *Daily News* have said about O’Donovan’s letter. Since Jennychen’s 2nd letter was not signed (by accident), he evidently flatters himself with the idea that one will take him for the secret sender. This has been frustrated for him in J’s third letter. The fellow is, du reste, teacher of French at the military school of Sandhurst. Last Tuesday I was again in the sitting of the General Council for the first time. With me Felix Holt, the Rascal. He was very much amused because, in truth, there was an exception, something interesting going on. The prolétaires ‘positivistes’ in Paris had, as is known, already sent a deputy to the Basle Congress. There was a dispute whether he should be admitted, because he represented a philosophical society, no working men’s society (although he and his associates all ‘personally’ belong to the working class.) In the end he was admitted as a delegate of personal members of the ‘International’. These fellows have now constituted themselves in Paris as a branch of the Intern. – an event about which the London and Paris Comtists made a great fuss. They thought they had driven in the thin wedge. The General Council, upon notification by the ‘prolétaires positivistes’ of their accession, reminded them most politely that the Council could permit their entry only after inspection of their programme xxx (?). They therefore sent a programme – genuinely Comtist orthodox – which was discussed last Tuesday. Muddershead presided, a very intelligent (although Irish-hating) old Chartist and personal enemy and connoisseur of Comtism. After a long debate: Since they are workers, they can be admitted as a simple branch. On the other hand not as a ‘branch positiviste’, since the principles of Comtism directly contradict those of our Statutes. For the rest, it is their own business how they bring their private philosophical views into harmony with those of our Statutes. About the Solingen bungle more soon. Salut D Moro.