{London,] 6 December 1860 

Dear Frederick, 

Best thanks for the £2. The office closest to me is the Campen 
‘TOWN MONEY OFFICE.” 

As regards the want of résumés, you are perfectly right. They 
were there originally, but were deleted by me when I saw how 
much the affair had grown without my noticing it. For, printed in 
the normal way, the thing? would amount to a very stout volume. 
You will find, by the by, that in Chapter XI, ‘A Lawsuit’, all the 
personal stuff is so thoroughly dinned into your philistine that it 
will remain with him for the rest of his days. 

As for Monsieur Edouard Simon, the cur described you in his 
mud-slinging article ** (a malicious translation of Techow’s ‘police 
spy’) as ‘le mouchard toujours affairé’* Whereat I took it upon myself 
to make an example of the laddie, since insults aimed at you vex 
me more than those directed against myself. 

Apropos—sy THE By—as soon as Lupus has got through the 
thing, I'd be grateful if he could drop me a line or two. My wife’s 
greatest pleasure at the moment consists in letters about it. On the 
whole, she is getting on well, but slowly. 

Mr Philistine Freiligrath, that ‘snotty Westphalian snout’,’ ‘wrote 
to me yesterday as follows: 

‘Your book, (not pamphlet, egad!) ‘has been sent me by Petsch. Many thanks! 
From what I have read so far, I find it is, as I expected, full of wit and malice. 
There is so much detail as almost to make it difficult to get a general idea of it. 
You will excuse me if I do not enter into the case as such. Even today I still 
deplore the whole dispute from which now, as before, I would sooner stand aloof.’ 

What do you think of those two last sentences? The swine, who 
was already aware of Vogt’s lies and Blind’s turpitude, but now 
has them before him in black and white, is unwilling (not, mark 
you, that I invited him to do so) ‘to enter into the case as such’. 
And ‘now, as before,’ he ‘would sooner stand aloof from the whole 

* See this volume, p. 222.-> Herr Vogt-¢ the ever busy spy -@ J. Fischart, 
Affentheurliche, Naupengeheurliche Geschichtklitierung, Ch. 3, p. 68. 

dispute’. It now seems to me that he hasn’t yet read the whole of 
it, for he would then see just where he stands. I have now 
discovered the secret of his intimacy with Blind (it is business, of 
course, that ties him to Vogt-Fazy). Namely, on the occasion of the 
Schiller festival, Freiligrath had 20,000 copies of his poem* 
printed at a cost of £40-60. He wanted to make a business of it. 
But didn’t sell forty. Since his speculation had failed, it now 
behoved him ‘to palm off’ the cost, as Petsch aptly put it, onto the 
Schiller committee.” In this Blind was his most servile root. Hinc? 
the ‘reciprocal good turn’ done by the snotty Westphalian snout. 

You will find the misprints you reprobate listed in the errata. 
Originally, the list was 3 times as long. But since it looked bad, we 
shortened it. The fault lies entirely with Hirschfeld, a ninny who 
has no control over his compositor. Petsch isn’t having anything 
else printed by him. 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 

Should something or other occur to you that might do for a 
military pamphlet of 1-3 sheets, Petsch would be delighted, for he 
now wants to achieve the status of ‘publisher and bookseller’. He’s 
a very nice chap.