[London, mid-August 1871] 

Wroblewski, Longuet, Bastelica are here. 

Why bother to rehabilitate that good-for-nothing B. Becker? 
And allow that jackass Goegg to parade his own idiocies before the 
public? ?” 

Marx’s daughters are in Bagnéres-de-Luchon in the Pyrenees, 
where they were visited by the Prefect, the great Kératry, and 
Delpech, the Prosecutor-General, who made it clear that it was 
necessary for them to leave France. Lafargue was safely... 
mountains to Spain. Two gendarmes were posted in their garden 
until their departure! But do not mention any of this in public 
(apart from what might be reported in the French papers), until 
we have them safely back here again.”’? Thiers is determined to 
make a complete fool of himself. 

Your 
F. E.