{London,] 14 December 1852 

.. No more than a few lines today. Briiningk has written to me. 
I replied in writing,*” telling him that Kinkel and Willich were the 
instigators of the rumour and that I had alluded to, but not named 
them, in my letter to you. 

Should Kinkel issue a public denial in the American Press, I 
shall publish the whole correspondence and/or the record of what 
happened between him, myself and J. Huzel,* as proof of his 
veracity and his courageous vindication of the imputations he had 
made. 

Should Briningk demand that you recant or publicly attack you 
for ‘deliberate distortion of the material with which I provided 
you’, confine yourself to the following points: 1. You could 
perfectly well have concluded that Mrs von Briiningk was an agent 
whom even her friends suspected her of being one,° the more so 

a as well as he was able - > K. Marx, ‘Parliament.—Vote of November 26.— 
Disraeli’s Budget’. -° 10 December 1852-4 See this volume, pp. 139-40 and 
149-50. - © ibid., pp. 125, 152, 204 and 205. 

since she was an agent for the notorious Russian agent, Princess 
von Lieven. 

2. You had all the less reason to stand on ceremony since 
Schimmelpfennig— Mrs von Brtiningk’s crony—had established 
the principle that Marx and Co. were to be calumniated. 

3. You might have issued a statement yourself had Bruningk 
approached the Wecker direct, and then yourself instead of 
dragging in the miserable Ruge-Ronges. Ga suffira’ 

Ad vocem’ E. Jones. Jones is now rising rapidly. Harney’s 
paper—and J.’s rival— The Star of Freedom, set some 3 weeks ago. 

Ad vocem Kinkel-Willich. The effrontery of these two fellows’ 
anti-Reichenbach statement surpasses all bounds. 

1. Reichenbach acted too leniently in respect of these fellows in 
concealing the real reason which above all motivated his action.” 
For in America Loan Notes bearing Reichenbach’s signature still 
continue to circulate. Kinkel and Willich got their agents in 
America to convert them into silver, even at a discount, and send the 
proceeds direct to them, long after they had been disowned qua 
financial committee by the London guarantors; similarly, they 
hawked these notes round London. At no time have they accounted 
for the sums thus received. It was downright escroquerie’ and 
Reichenbach deemed a statement necessary in order to clear 
himself of all responsibility for it. 

2. The German papers applauded the resolution to return the 
money to America, Kinkel coming in for especial praise. The rascal 
received these bourgeois plaudits in silence—nor, in Bradford and 
Manchester, did he show any inclination whatever to confess his 
opposition to the said resolution. He seeks to appear respectable to 
bourgeoisie in Germany in order to make money, and poses as a 
believer in revolution before the revolutionary philistines in 
America in order to wrest from the clutches of the Cerberus 
Reichenbach the money he has swindled from them. 

3. Willich pins his faith to the distance between America and 
London. Over here the fellow is regarded by all the refugees as a 
proven spy and a rogue unmasked. He believes that in America he 
will still be able to play the treasurer of the revolution. 

Hirsch has told a working men’s club in Blamich Street“ that 
Willich is his accomplice. He himself, the sly Hirsch (!!!) says, is a 
spy in the interests of democracy, but Willich in the interests of 
the police, no less. Willich’s society heard about this. Questions 

a That will be enough. - © re - © swindle -¢ In the original there is a question 
mark above this word. 

were asked, etc. (you may have read about it already in my 
Revelations).*** He could think of nothing better than to remove 
with a minute nucleus of his society to another establishment where 
visitors were not admitted, and to shift his own domicile to a remote 
corner of London. These two blackguards must now be unmasked in 
America as well. Here they are completely done for. 

Ad vocem -Goegg. Goegg, who for months was telling everyone 
that he attended the Wheeling Congress,’*” was in Strassburg at 
the time, getting together what remained of his fortune, £300. 
Now, in company with Ronge, he is setting up kindergartens and 
similar German-Catholic””” educational establishments. 

Your 
K. M.