{London,] 8 September 1871 

Dear Frep, 

Allsop’s address is Pegwell Bay. No number has been given nor is 
it needed. EveryBopy WILL TELL YOU THE WHEREABOUTS oF Pegwell Bay. It is 
a good thing that you can speak to him since he is coming to 
London on Tuesday* with the money and has invited me to come 
and see him there. I have written to him at length ’ and made it 
clear that I can only continue To BE THE a@umonier” OF HIMSELF AND his 
friends if I am allowed complete freedom of action anp am Not 
BOTHERED WITH THE DEMAND TO PRODUCE LISTS OF ‘THE DIFFERENT DEGREES OF DISTRESS’ 
of the refugees.?” 

What do you think of our honourable Favre? The lousy London 
press now has to report its own disgrace by telegraph.** 

Last Monday L’Avenir libéral—journal bonapartiste, publié a 
Paris—reported my death. 

In consequence we have received a number of letters; among 
others, Dronke wrote to my wife today, and Imandt too sent the 
Dundee Advertiser which contained the same nonsense. 

A demain Catt upon ME AFTER YOUR ARRIVAL AT LONDON. 

Regards to the whole FAMILY. 

Your 
K. M. 

Rochat does a splendid imitation of Frankel’s French. 

The Evening Standard of 6 September only published the letter to the 
Envitor,” adding the note: “WE HAVE RECEIVED NO ENCLOSURE.’ 227 

I did not see the stuff until yesterday. Since the letters to the 
fellows were in your handwriting’ I got my wife to write to them 
at once in her own name, on the pretext that I was out of London 
for a few days. She has sent the Public Opinion (and Registered the 
letter), and demanded that it be printed together with an apologie, 
under threat of legal proceedings. She put in an ‘old’ card with it, 

a 12 September - © almoner -¢ L’Avenir libéral, No. 376, 5 September 1871. - 
4 Until tomorrow. - * K. Marx, ‘To the Editor of The Evening Standard: - § See this 
volume, p. 201. 

which reads: ‘Mme Jenny Marx, née Baronesse de Westphalen’, 
which will be bound to put fear into those Tories.