London 22 June 1871. Dear Liebknecht, Herewith the translation of No. I of the Address. The rest follows so soon that you can bring No. I in two numbers, & yet no interruption occurs, i.e., in 8 days you will have manuscript again. Condition is 1) that you print fast & a lot in each number, 2) that no marginal glosses accompany it, I have translated in such a way that, apart from allusions & details which cannot be explained in a few words anyway, such are not necessary; 3) that the type for the separate offprint as a pamphlet, which is very necessary this time, remains standing. If you do not have the money or the credit for it, let us know. Whatever you cannot print, replace with dots & send the relevant manuscript to Becker in Geneva so that he brings it in the Vorbote (arranged so that he sees where the passages belong). The copy of the original Address that I sent you as a letter with a few lines you will have received. More are at disposal. The Address has caused a tremendous uproar here in London. First an attempt at a conspiracy of silence, but it didn’t work. Wednesday the 14th the Evening Standard had a denunciation, the 15th the Daily News an extract that went through most of the papers. Then Echo, on Saturday Spectator, Graphic, Pall Mall Gazette, Telegraph leading articles & with that the thing was done, the Times came on Monday with a very shabby leading article following, Standard again, yesterday Times again, & all London spoke only of us. Of course all howling. Tant mieux. I don’t understand your misgivings regarding expulsion. S’il In your place I would not give up Hessian citizenship without having another safely in my pocket. You all are too timid in this respect. A single great public scandal that made it clear to the world that all these imperial laws really are humbug would put an end to all that stuff. But if you avoid the scandal, which after all can only harm the National-serviles, instead of provoking it, then the police can of course permit themselves everything. Nota bene, this only refers to the passage in your letter in question, not to the attitude of the paper which is very courageous & which we thoroughly acknowledge. But don’t believe that the police hounds will dare against you what they dare against individual workers; only when they have created enough precedents through expulsions of workers for a while could that happen. That your expulsion from Prussia is still in force is completely unknown to me. That the police assert it may be. That you, however, when you were still a deputy, did not bring it to a conclusion remained always incomprehensible to me. I cannot correspond for the Volksstaat, but you see I help where I can. Nothing can be done with the P. M. G. I myself have had all sorts of trickery with the paper on occasion of the exclusively military articles & neither you nor I can write political things in it. I keep the connection open only to slip in something occasional here & there, to keep a footing there. If it took you as a correspondent, which it would not do, none of your correspondences would be printed. Already around New Year I went so far as to tell the editor that I knew very well that I could supply him not with political but only military articles & I did that only in the expectation that he would take up our factual corrections in party matters, if we deemed it necessary. That has also happened. You also seem to have a good idea of Reynolds. The biggest louse in the press here, a coward where he is not sure of success, has suppressed the entire Address except for the extract in the Daily News. The German workers have behaved quite splendidly in this last great crisis, better than any others. Bebel has also represented them quite excellently, his speech on the Commune has gone through the entire English press & made a great impression here. From time to time you should send the Volksstaat to the Pall Mall, it brings extracts from it from time to time because the fellow has a fear of Marx & me, & because there is another fellow there who knows German & brings such things in. Besides, the paper likes to bring all sorts of curiosa that the others do not have. You oblige me if you no longer send my Volksstaat to Manchester, but here. Of the numbers with the Address send me 3–4 copies, one for correction, the rest for distribution. Best greetings to you & yours Your F. E.