[London,] 24 June 1865

Dear Liebknecht,

You must explain to yourself my long silence by continuing
indisposition and much work in intervals when I have been
capable of it. Your letters, moreover, contained nothing which
would have required urgent reply.

The Nordstern has most likely been suspended for a while owing
to lack of money? At least, it has not arrived here for a couple of
weeks. A fine gutter rag, to be sure! The declaration by various
associations* that anyone who so much as lays a finger on the
articles of faith as revealed by Lassalle is guilty of high treason, is
priceless. Haut-gotit,” worep!

What is Mr B. Becker doing in Berlin, and how is the
Social-Demokrat ‘surviving’?

You have quite the wrong notion of Dr Kugelmann. I have been
in correspondence with him for years past. He was a socialist back
in 1848, in Düsseldorf. As ro Pieper, the very name or Kugelmann
was not known to him when he was here.?”

I have not yet written to Stumpf because I have not been
writing any letters over this period. As regards the letter he
entrusted to Bruhn, I have not, of course, ever set eyes upon it.?"

The Inrernationat Association is making great strides despite the
‘ENORMOUS SUPPORT’ it is receiving from Germany.”

As regards the ‘Louis Bonaparte’, I could see from your proprinc
OF THE subject that the matter has come to nothing.” I am Rather
glad of this, as I shall later be having it re-printed in the
essay-collection all the same.

What is old Hatzfeldt doing? And the fracas over the will?!

Salut.

Your
K. M.

a A reference to the various branches of the General Association of German Workers
(see this volume, p. 161). - > strong meat - © K. Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of
Louis Bonaparte.

What are Messrs E. Bauer, Bucher et Co. up to?
Edgar* will probably be staying here a while longer yet.?