London, 5 October 1852 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Cluss, 

Your letter of 16 September* arrived very late today. I am 
therefore sending only a few lines in reply, since you ask for an 
answer by return. Next Friday a rather more substantial report 
will be going off to you.” My information about the Briiningk 
woman (she’s not a spy but corresponds with her aunt, the 
Princess Lieven, in Paris, who is notoriously one) came from 
Bangya. The latter, however, has very important reasons for not 
being named. If he were, he would forfeit many ‘sources of 
information’ which, being important to us, must be preserved. 

You can write and tell Schnauffer that he merely has to answer 
that no further authorities need be cited since his (Briiningk’s) two 
friends, Kinkel and Willich, have themselves been spreading it about 
in London that Mrs von Britiningk has suspect political connec- 
tions. 

That Willich has been saying things of this kind is so well 
known that Schimmelpfennig has taken him to task about it. If 
necessary, witnesses can be cited to support this. 

Kinkel voiced this suspicion outright, e.g. to his friend Kamm, 

4 26 September in the original. - > See next letter. 

the brushmaker (from Bonn), when the latter passed through here 
on his way to America. Kamm helped to spread it further. 

(Willich, of course, did not discover that the woman was suspect 
until after she had dropped him.) 

Your 
K. M.