[London,] 3 June 1864 

Dear Frederick, 

Herewith 

1. A scrap of paper sent me today in a wrapper from Brussels 
by jackass Kertbeny; 

2. Cutting from the Rheinische Zeitung containing an obituary of 
Lupus—written by Elsner, now one of the editors of the Breslauer 
Zeitung, from which the Rheinische has reprinted it’; 

3. Another cutting from the Rhein. Zeit., in which I would draw 
your attention to the article ‘Der feudale Sozialismus’’; 

4. Letter from one Klings of Solingen to one Moll over here. To 
enable you to understand this letter, I should explain that Moll 
(and also a companion of his‘) is a working man from Solingen, 
who (along with the aforesaid companion) has evaded a 4 months’ 
prison sentence (the result of Lassalle’s performances last year). 
Klings, ditto a working man, is Baron Izzy’s authorised representa- 
tive in Solingen. 

The two Solingen refugees came to see me here; they informed 
me of their enthusiasm for Izzy and how the workers had 
harnessed themselves to his carriage when he was last in Solingen. 
They assumed as a matter of course that we two were hand-in- 
glove with Izzy (who, when last in Elberfeld, made a speech about 
Lupus °*). Klings, they said, was a former member of the League,” 
as were all the working men who were leaders of Izzy’s movement 
in the Rhine Province, and that, now as ever, all were our resolute 
supporters. He also showed me Klings’ letter, and I asked whether 
I might have it to send to you. To this he assented. So, don’t 
return it. I did not, of course, enlighten the chaps as to our 
relations, or rather non-relations, with Izzy, but got others to arep 
some pretty vague hints. 

Now the men are hanging about here, unemployed. 50 talers 
are to be sent them from Solingen, the local Workers’ Society? i 

4 [K. F. M. Elsner,] ‘Kasematten-Wolff’, Breslauer Zeitung, Morgen-Ausgabe, 24 May 
1864; Rheinische Zeitung, No. 145, 26 May 1864. - > ‘Feudaler Sozialismus’, Rheinische 
Zeitung, No. 149, 30.May 1864. - © Julius Melchior 

giving them £2; we shall be collecting a bit more here, and it 
would be a good thing if Manchester could contribute a pound or 
two. The fellows must be conveyed to America, since they are 
factory hands (Solingen cutlers, etc.) and are quite unsuitable for 
London handicrafts. 

‘What’s come over me?’ I asked myself more than once while 
reading Izzy’s Lohnarbeit und Kapital* For in its essentials it 
seemed to me familiar, literally so Gf embellished in the Izzian 
manner), yet not cribbed direct from the Manifesto, etc. Then, a 
couple of days ago, I happened to look out my series of articles on 
‘Wage-labour and Capital’ in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1849) 
which were in fact merely a printed version of lectures I had 
delivered in 1847 at the Brussels Workers’ Society.’*! There I 
found my Izzy’s immediate source and, as a special act of 
friendship, I shall reproduce the whole caboodle from the 
N. Rh, Z. as a note or appendix to my book—on ratse prevences, of 
course, and without any mention of Izzy. He won’t enjoy it in the 
least. 

The books have arrived, ditto the wine, for which many 
thanks. Tussy asks me ‘ro Give you HER LOVE AND TO TELL YOU THAT YOUR 
COTTON HAS SOMEWHAT IMPROVED’, 

Borkheim has made asour £2,000—under the patronage of 
Oppenherm, the ‘Jew Siiss’* of Egypt. Oppenheim, to whom, 
according to the account B. himself gave me, he played more or 
less the part of jester in the land of the pyramids, wanted to keep 
him there on the spot. But Europeans die there like flies, so B. 
arranged instead to be entrusted from time to time with a little bit 
of business by Abul Haim, as Oppenheim is called by the Arabs. 
This summer he will again visit Constantinople to that end. 

The girls and madame send you their kindest regards. 

My comruments to Liccy.4 

Salut. 

Your 
K, M. 

Apropos. 

Wherever honours are being handed out, there friend Freilig- 
rath is sure to be. Cf. Elsner’s obituary. Remember Harney’s 
funeral oration for Schramm. And now New York has seen the 

a F, Lassalle, Herr Bastiat-Schulze von Delitzsch, der dkonomische Julian, oder: Capital und 
Arbeit, Berlin, 1864.-5 K. Marx and F. Engels, Manifesto of the Communist 
Party. - © J. Siiss-Oppenheimer - ¢ Lizzy Burns 

publication by a local society of a very sumptuous Record of the 
Revolution in which all the events, documents, etc., of the present 
Civil War are xecistrren from the time it first started. We, this 
record has been sent gratis to some 20 or 30 people (including 
various European libraries), among them the Queen or Encianp,” 
J. Stuart Mill, Cobden, Bright, and—Freiligrath. He informed me 
of this, with the phrase that the Yankees had ‘afforded him great 
pleasure and done him a great honour’, and gave me the 
accompanying letter to read along with the printed list of the 
fortunate few. I should dearly like to know what the good fellow 
has done, might do, or intends to do for the Yankees. But loi 
générale‘: Freiligrath is to receive the honneurs on behalf of the 
German nation because the worthy citizen adopts so worthy and 
neutral an attitude, ‘and, come to that, hasn’t really learnt 
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