[London,] 15 August 1872 
Dear Sir, 

I hope you have received the first part of the second German 
edition**”° which I have sent you a few days since. I shall also send 

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you the first 6 livraisons* of the French edition *° which will be out 
in a few days. It is necessary to compare both editions because 
I have added and changed here and there in the French edi- 
tion. 

Your interesting letter*”? I have received and shall answer to it 
in a few days. I have also received the manuscript” and the 
article of the Vestnik 

To-day I write in all haste, for one special purpose which is of 
the most urgent character. 

Bakunin has worked secretly since years to undermine the 
International and has now been pushed by us so far as to throw 
away the mask and secede openly with the foolish people led by 
him—the same man who was the manager in the Nechayev 
affair.°** Now this Bakunin was once charged with the Russian 
translation of my book,° received the money for it in advance, and 
instead of giving work, sent or had sent to Lubanin (I think)‘ who 
transacted for the publisher* with him the affair, a most infamous 
and compromising letter.”* It would be of the highest utility 
for me, if this letter was sent me immediately. As this is a 
mere commercial affair and as in the use to be made of the 
letter no names will be used, I hope you will procure me that let- 
ter. But no ime is to be lost. If it is sent, it ought to be sent at 
once as I shall leave London for the Haag Congress *” at the end 
of this month. 

Yours very truly, 
A. Williams‘