London, 8 October 1859 

My dear Franck, 

I have received your last letter, in which you appear to suppose 
that, as yet, nothing has been done in the affair K. Now, this is 
altogether a mistake. 

a See this volume, pp. 486-88. 

1) On Thursday (Sept. 29), I sent you a copy of the London Free 
Press d.d. 28 Sept., containing a statement headed: Particulars of 
K’s Transaction with L. N. On the very. day of its issue that number 
of the F. P. was forwarded to all the newspaper offices of 
London. The Times published its article in K’s favour’ only after 
having made sure from the F. P., that K. is as venal a fellow as the 
Times writers. 

For the case of the number of the F. P., sent to you, having 
been intercepted by the French Post-Office, I enclose the article 
above said in this letter. 

2) The statement of the F. P. has been reprinted in English, 
Scotch and Irish provincial papers. A literal translation of it has, 
by friends of mine, been inserted in the Augsburg Allgemeine 
Zeitung” and the Bremer Weserzeitung. Another German transla- 
tion is said to have appeared in the Berlin ‘Nationalzeitung’. 

3) Simultaneously with your letter, I received to-day the New 
York Tribune d.d. September 24 which, under the title ‘K. and 
L. N.’, brings an elaborate article of mine, filling two and a half 
columns, and put forward in a prominent place of the paper. The 
Tribune having always had a faible‘ for K., and P. being its 
London correspondent, this publication is a real success, the more 
so, since P. is nominally denounced in the article, and the 
apologetical passages of his own letter to the New Y. T- are 
ridiculed. There exist at least some hundred smaller American 
papers, published in the English language, which receive their mot 
d’ordre from the Tribune, and, consequently, will reprint that 
article. The German American press, from New York to San 
Francisco, will, by this time, have translated the article into the 
Teutonic vernacular. 

Moreover, it should not be forgotten that New York is the 
centre of the Hungarian emigration in America. 

If you [should] be unable to get the Tribune d.d. Sept. 24., I 
shall send you the article on the condition of your remitting it, since I 
possess no other copy, and stand in need of it should it be replied 
to by P. 

4) K's letter to Mac Adam,‘ on which the Times leader remarks, 
has been generally ridiculed by the London papers, so much so 

4‘One of the most remarkable results...... The Times, No. 23428, 4 October 
1859. - & [K. Marx,] ‘Ludwig Kossuth und Louis Napoleon’, Allgemeine Zeitung, 
No. 276, 3 October 1859 (supplement). - © weak point - ¢ [F. Pulszky,] ‘From Our 
Own Correspondent. Monday, August 7, 1859’, New-York Daily Tribune, No. 5720, 23 
August 1859. - € cue - f Kossuth’s letter to J. M? Adam was published in The Times, 
No. 23428, 4 October 1859. 

that K. induced that same Mac Adam to declare in the same 
papers, that the letter was a private letter and not meant for 
publication.” As a specimen, of the manner in which K’s letter was 
handled, I enclose a leader from the London Daily Telegraph. 

5) lf you can forward me any further particulars on K’s 
proclamations and intrigues in Hungary, they will be very 
welcome, and are sure to find their way into the Press. 

6) My stationer was unable to get the Times’ copies you ask for. 
Generally, some days after their issue, London Daily papers are 
difficult of procuring. 

7) The remark on Perczel in the F. P. article is based on a public 
declaration of his. I thought fit to allude to it, in order to throw 
confusion into the ranks of K’s partisans as to the source from 
which the information proceeds. 

8) From the note enclosed, you will see that the English 
merchant, on further consideration, declines entering upon the 
wine-affair. The German, I spoke of, has returned to the 
Continent. Thus I see no prospect of pushing on this affair in 
England. 

As to my brother-in-law,” I have written to him, but not yet 
received his answer. 

Yours truly 
Williams ‘