[London,] 1 May 1865

Dear Frep,

You must excuse me for not writing until today and thus
breaking my Lasr promise. It happened not because it is ‘sheer
delight to break one’s word’, but because I really am overworked,
as completing my book,° on the one hand, and the ‘Internationa
Association’, on the other, are making very heavy demands on my
time.

Today is little Jenny’s birthday, and this evening I shall be
having Ernest Jones to my house along with Odger, Cremer, Fox

a between ourselves - & Paraphrased quotation from F. Riickert’s poem ‘Die Weisheit
des Brahmanen’. - © Capital

and Jung, so it will be a political birthday party. Laura nap ‘rue
QUESTION PopreD’ by one Charles Manning, born in South America,
English father, Spanish mother. He’s rich and generally a nice
fellow, pur Laura ‘pors NOT CARE A PIN FOR HIM’. ‘SHE HAS ALREADY KNOWN
How To pAmp’ the passionate southern temperament. However, as my
girl is a friend of his sisters, and he is frightfully 1 Love, it is a
DISAGREEABLE CASE.

I enclose a ‘curiosity’. The Nordstern’s correction makes it a
worthy organ of the German louts.

I am also enclosing for you THe Larrer END Of a letter from Schily,
whose report on the Moses woman will amuse you.

The great achievement of the ‘International Association’ is this:

The Rerorm Leacue is our work. On the inner committee of 12 (6
MIDDLECLASSMEN and 6 WORKINGMEN), the WORKINGMEN ARE ALL MEMBERS OF
our Counci (including Eccarius).'°° We wave Barrtep all attempts by
the middle class ‘ro mis-zap THE WORKING CLASS. This time the movement
in the provinces is completely dependent on that in London.
Ernest Jones, e.g., had despaired till we set the ball a-going. If we
succeed in re-electrifying the political Movement of the Encuisn
WORKING class, Our Association Will already have done more for the
European working class, without Maxine Any Fuss, than was possible in
ANY OTHER way. And there is every prospect of success.

You know that the Italian society”? has not withdrawn from the
Association, but its delegates have from the Council.” We now have
Spaniards on it instead. One Roman nation For THE other. If those
fellows don’t appoint new delegates soon, as we have asked them
to, Bakunin will have to arrange for some Italians.

Weber junior‘ has been thrown out of the workers’ society here
for making false reports to the Social-Demokrat and for stirring up
trouble in the branch society “Teutonia’, which is run by two
fanatical Prussians by the name of Klinker.?”

Our joint statement’ really was successful beyond all expectation. Not merely have we blown apart the ‘General Association of
German Workers’? as an organ of the Prussian government and in
six worps generally cleared the heads of the German workers of
their intoxication with royalty. The present split in the Party of
Progress was also the direct result of our stand.

The cuivarry or THE Soury has ended worthily. In addition,
Lincoln’s assassination was the most stupid act they could have
committed. Johnson is stern, INFLEXIBLE, REVENGEFUL and as a former

a Sibylle Hess - > See this volume, p. 140. -¢ Louis Weber -4¢ K. Marx and
F. Engels, “To the Editor of the Social-Demokrat’.

poor wHiTe has a deadly hatred of the oligarchy. He will make less
fuss about these fellows, and, because of the treachery, he will find
the temper of the North commensurate with his intentions.

Did you see how Blind ueans the letter of condolence from the
‘influential’ Germans?”*' Blind is a genius in his way. In THe very
nick oF TIME he does not merely go running to Freiligrath, etc., but
has enough presence of mind to realise that, of the other
signatories, alphabetically ‘Berndes’ would open the list. So, he
runs first to Freiligrath, etc., and gets him first of all to form a
group and, after that worthy (who is now at one with Ruge as
well), certain other iriuentiats, I almost said rriniresimats, Such as
Heintzmann and Kinkel, and puts himself ‘alphabetically’ at the
top. Then he goes running to Berndes and gets him to start a
second column next to himself, so that another lot of names,
Trtibner, etc., follows on. That is how the matter appears in The
Times. In the same day’s Morning Star the second column is added
to the bottom of the first, with Blind at rue Top oF THE WHOLE, AND HIS
rooTMaN Freiligrath after him, etc. And not content with that, at his
instigation, the Star of the same number also carries a notice on
the front page that ‘Kari Buinp ueaps, erc.’.

Isn’t that genius for you?

Salut. Your
K. M.