{London,| 27 December 1851 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Moorish Prince! 

Enclosed a letter from Ebner. 
Today I also received another letter from Weydemeyer in 
which, among other things, he says: 

‘Not long ago an emissary arrived_from the London “agitation club” *73 for the 
purpose of opposing Kinkel’s loan.” These people probably imagine that here in 
America all are split into Kinkelians and anti-Kinkelians simply because a handful 
of refugees have made much ado about nothing. The stir over Kossuth has long 
consigned Kinkel to oblivion and the couple of thousand dollars he is collecting 
are, indeed, hardly worth making a fuss about. 

‘In any case, I can see to the sale of the Revue for you over here. Similarly it 
would be possible to dispose of some more of Freiligrath’s more recent poetry.’ 

After dunning us once again Weydemeyer goes on: 

‘But above all, a poem from Freiligrath: that is the most popular of all.’ 

Take that to heart and hammer out a New Year’s ode to the 
New World. As things are now, it seems to me really more feasible 
to write in verse than in prose, whether sentimental or humorous. 

If, by the by, you were some time to attempt to render as art the 
humour that is peculiar to Your African Majesty in private life, I 

4 General rule - > From the title of Freiligrath’s ballad ‘Der Mohrenfurst’. 

feel sure you would play a role in this genre also, since you are, as 
your wife* has rightly remarked, rather a rogue. 

I would enclose Weydemeyer’s letter if I hadn’t first to show it 
to Engels, who will probably be staying here until Thursday and 
who had hoped last Tuesday to find you ensconced in the 
‘synagoguc’. 

The Association has now moved its quarters to ‘Farringdon 
Street, City, Market House, c/o W. J. Masters. Wine and Spirit 
Merchant.’ Meetings henceforward on Thursdays, 9 o’clock. The 
Association rightly claims that its quarters are now within your 
district.°* 

Palmerston has been dismissed by Russell,” 1) in order that the 
Jatter may act the constitutional hero vis-a-vis Bonaparte, 2) in 
order to make a concession to Russia and Austria. While I do not 
share the view that this fact will in any way affect the fate of the 
refugees generally or our own in particular, I believe that for 
Britain it presages a most lively year politically. From what Engels 
tells me, the ciry Merchants NOW also share our view that the crisis, 
held in check by all kinds of factors (including, e.g., political 
misgivings, the high price of cotton last year), etc., must blow up 
at the latest next autumn. And, apres les derniers événements je suis 
plus convaincu que jamais, qu'il n’y aura pas de révolution sérieuse sans 
crise commerciale? 

Regards from my family to yours. 

Expiring, 
The Moor