{London,] 26 Marcu 1870 

Dear Fred, 

Returned, enclosed, the letter from the ‘wrong’ Moll.* I have 
heard nothing from Menke yet. When you write to the lads, please 
tell them, also, 1. that Lessner has written repeatedly to them that 
the Central Council? can do nothing on this matter; 2. that they 
can work it out on their own 5 fingers that their cooperative 
society is of absolutely no interest to the English; and 3. that the 
Central Council is bombarded from all parts of Europe with 
demands for money, without receiving financial contributions 
from anybody on the continent. 

I don’t understand your lines of this morning. This is probably 
due to the fact that my head, as a result of physical infirmity, is 
not at its most lucid. 

I would appreciate it if you could send me, tomorrow evening 
(if there is a post on Sunday, which is not the case here), £5 as an 
advance on the coming quarter. My wife informed me too Iate, Le. 
at a moment of exhausted Exchequer, that the gas bill has to be paid 
at 2 o’clock on Monday. 

a Friedrich Moll (see this volume, pp. 455-56). - > General Council 

I think I left behind in Manchester** the number of the Queen’s 
Messenger containing the biography of Clanricarde. Since this 
brute is putting on great airs in connection with the Irish Cozrcion 
But,°*” it is high time for J. Williams* to introduce to the French a 
counterpart for Pierre Bonaparte.” 

Have you ever seen such filthy weather as this winter and 
autumn? No wonder that one can’t get back on one’s feet. 

Salut 

Your 
K. M.