{London,] 16 June 1864 
Dear Frederick, 

Thanks for Dagbladet. 

Before I start on this letter—and so that I don’t forget—here’s 
a question for you: Are the following word groups I found in a 
Belgian etymologist’s work? or any value? 

Sanskrit Wer (couvrir, protéger, respecter, honorer, aimer, 
chérir’), adjective Wertas (excellent, respectable), Gothic Wairths, 
Anglo-Saxon Weorth, English worth, Lithuanian werthas, Aleman- 
nic Werth. 

Sanskrit Wertis, Latin virtus, Gothic Wairthi, Teutonic Werth. 

Sanskrit Wal (couvrir, fortifier>), valor, value. (???) 

Strohn is here. Arrived yesterday. Leaves for Bradford again 
tomorrow. Seems to me very much better. Also more plucky now. 

I and various other people here have collected so much for the 
two Solingen chaps‘ that only 2 more pounds are needed to 
enable them to leave for New York by sailing-vessel and not be 
completely broke on arrival there. I am also giving them a note 
for Dr Jacobi, by which means we shall discover what the modest 
little man is about. 

Herewith a letter I have received from Liebknecht who also sent 
a piece from the Grenzboten about Lupus.* Liebknecht will by now 
have got ‘my second letter containing a ‘real consideration’ (as 
Mr Patkul calls it in his secret despatches‘). 

The Russians would seem to be claiming Schleswig-Holstein 
for themselves under the heading of Oldenburg,’ and to 
be ‘compensating’ Prussia for it. This Transaction would BE Too 
CLEVER. 

A Dutch orientalist, Professor Dozy of Leyden, has brought out 
a book! to prove that ‘Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are figments; 
that the Israelites were idolaters; that they carried round a “stone” 
in the “arke des Verbonds’; that the tribe of Simeon (driven out 
under Sau!) went to Mecca where they built a heathen temple and 
worshipped stones; that, after the release from Babylon, Ezra 
invented the myth of the creation up to and including Joshua, and 
also wrote laws and dogmas, thus paving the way for reform, 
monotheism, etc.’. 

That’s what they write and tell me from Holland; they also say 
that the book has created a great sensation among theologians 
there, particularly since Dozy is the most learned orientalist in 
Holland and, what’s more—-a professor at Leyden! Outside 
Germany at any rate (Renan, Colenso, Dozy, etc.) there is a 
remarkable anti-religious movement. 
The children send you their love, and my wife asks me to dun 
you for her chain. 
Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 

(You might let me have your ‘private address’ in case there should 
be anything else I want to communicate to you of a Saturday 
evening.) 

Send me Ernest Jones’s address.