[London,] 16 May 1861 

Dear Frederick, 

I missed Gumpert. First, I went to Euston Square*” at 5 in the 
afternoon and waited there till 6. Later on, at asout 8 octock, I went 
to London Bridge Station. In neither case did I catch him. 

Perhaps you would be so kind as to write and tell us when you 
are coming.’ 

As regards your own relations with Prussia,” let me begin by 
giving you the opinion of the leading jurists with whom I spoke in 
Berlin. Everything depends upon whether or not you were conscripted. 
. If not, your case as a Landwehr*' man is one for the ordinary civil 
courts. It would seem, by the by, that the Prussians are officially 
concerned only with your Elberfeld affair, not the one in Baden.*” 

I don’t know if you have read the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung 
of 19 April last. The final news item from Paris‘ reads (1 quote): 

‘By way of a warning to booksellers, Herr Vogt by Kar] Marx has been placed on 
the list of proscribed books, thus frustrating the appearance of a much abridged 
French version, which is now in press.’ 

I had intended to give you a further account of my journey 
today, but Mr Biithring has just come to see me, so I must get this 
note off. 

Salut. 
Your 
K. M.