{London,] 9 July [1860] 
Dear Frederick, 

As regards Meissner, the thing strikes me as somewhat dubious, 
since he is pretty well hand in glove with Vogt and Co. At any 
rate, I shan’t send him a manuscript* unless he concludes a 
contract beforehand. 

What about Bohemia? I must have it now, otherwise I shall be 
held up. Anyway, it need only be brief, you know.? 

I should also like you to devote a few sentences to a discussion 
of the military inanities contained in the following utterances of 
Falstaff Vogt’s. 

1. This man, who has made such a detailed study of the 
relationship between ‘Energy and Matter’,'* maintains that, within 
their present boundaries, the United Danubian Principalities are 
capable—qua independent kingdom—of forming a ‘bulwark’ 
against Russia and, indeed, of withstanding the Russians, Aus- 
trians and Turks. 

2. As the main proof of Badinguet’s'’’ altruism and policy of 
non-conquest he puts forward the argument that, after the 
‘glorious’ Crimean campaign," he did not annex either ‘Russian’ or 
‘Turkish’ territory. 

I am still not yet quite fit. One day, I feel a bit better, the next 
day a bit worse. 

Salut. 

163 

Your 
K. M. 

Apropos. I have seen (thanks to a young Englishman by the name 
of Green) a letter from Garibaldi in which he heartily reviles 
Bonaparte and hopes eventually to draw his sword against him.'*