London, 19 April 1864 
1 Modena Villas, Maitland Park, 
Haverstock Hill, N. W. 

Dear Freperick, 

The furunculosis persisted until asour a week ago, which made me 
very ‘peevish’ and it was nct until a day or two since that I was able to 
start work again. 

This month, April the first’s privilege of being azz roo pay, has 
been extended, at least in London, to the whole of April. Garibaldi 
and Palmerston ror ever on the waits of London!’ Garibaldi with 
Pam and Clanricarde, and extolled by the Encuisn pouicemen, at the 
Crystal Palace!°*? In England there aren’t any mouchards*! The 
Bandiera brothers would have something to say about that.** 
Garibaldi and ‘Karl Blind’! What a talent for puffing himself up 
the last-named hydrocephalous crab-louse displays! ‘Mr Karl 

4 by Hildebrand - » with me as tutor - © Geography - 4 ‘Dance, little nun, dance’ 
and “The shoe and his wife’ (Dutch nursery rhymes) - * Probably the wife of Karl 
Philips’ father-in-law, a general. -! fine day - 8 police spies 

Blind’, the Athenaeum announces, ‘Has Joined THE SHAKESPEARE CommMiT- 
tee!’ The fellow doesn’t understand one line of S. I had to put 
up considerable resistance and have doubtless completely forfeited 
Weber’s* esteem. For the Workers’ Society * (incited by W.) wanted 
me to compose an address to Gar., and then call on him with a 
deputation. I rerusep FLATLy. 

When are you going to come here? The family is expecting you. 

Tomorrow sees the start of the conference” that will cause the 
scales to fall from the Teutons’ eyes. Collet has announced himself 
for Thursday” and, at the same time, sent me a whole tor of 
German literature on the Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg mess. 
Tomorrow I shall have to get down to a serious study of this 
disagreeable affair so as to be ready with my answers for the 
fellow, who has the entire genealogy” at his fingertips. You may 
have noticed that the wretched Disraeli has spared Pam the 
trouble of answering Osborne’s and Kinglake’s motions on 
Schleswig-Holstein at the impending conference. Yesterday, Dis- 
raeli gave notice that he would put the previous question. In all the 
serious affairs Of the past 2 or 3 years (e.g. the Afghanistan 
business ?°”) he has extricated ocv Pam from the muppte. 

You will see how pitiful (I mean what a ponxey) Garibaldi is—he 
has been half kitten, incidentally, by John Bull’s emprace—from the 
following, which is not, or course, common knowledge. 

At the secret revolutionaries’ congress in Brussels (September 
1863)—which had Garibaldi as its nominal cu1er-—it was decided 
that G. should go to London, but do so incognito and thus catch 
the metropolis unawares. He was then to come our for Poland iw rue 
STRONGEST Possible way. Instead of that, the fellow goes and frater- 
nises with Pam! I'd rather be a louse in sheep’s clothing than a 
man of such brave stupidity, as Shakespeare says in Troilus and 
Cressida. 

Kindest regards to Lupus and Lizzy.‘ 

Your 
K. M. 

Little Jenny still has a cough but strikes me as being much 
better. The new house**’ has, in racr, cheered her up a great deal.