{London,] 26 April 1853 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Weydemeyer, 

On 21 April I received the anonymous scrawl set out below. An 
identical anonymous letter was sent to the democratic tavern- 
keepers, Scharttner and Géringer. I have ascertained the facts 
contained therein. I think you should publish the thing (you 
may name Scharttner and Goringer) along with a few introduc- 
tory remarks dated London. Messrs Stieber and Goldheim have 
come over here in order to ‘link’ Kossuth’s apocryphal gunpowder 
plot with the Berlin affair.* From the following you will note 
to what extent the ‘contrite’ Hirsch continues to be ‘A Victim of 
Moucharderie’.” Let us hope the blackguard doesn’t succeed in 
finding fresh victims in Berlin. I think this business will prove his 
complete undoing in America. Cluss will have received what 
follows below at the same time as yourself. We were all very 
taken with your 2 articles in the Reform Only see to it that 
Kellner doesn’t exploit you without a fitting quid pro quo in terms 
of political influence. Well, here is a word-for-word copy of the 
letter received by Scharttner, etc.: 

‘London, 21.4.53 

Announcement 

Recent arrivals: Police Commissioner Stieber and the Jew Goldheim, a police 
lieutenant, both of Berlin. 

Description 
Stieber the Jew Goldheim 

Medium height (about 5’) about 6’ 
Hair: black, short black, short 
Moustache: ditto, ditto ditto, ditto 
Complexion: sallow and muddy sallow, puffy features 
Wears dark, narrow trousers, a blue Wears black trousers, a light yellow sack, 

sack, a collapsible stuff hat, and black hat, 

spectacles, 

4 See this volume, pp. 315-16.- 5 An allusion to Hirsch’s ‘Die Opfer der 
Moucharderie...’ - © Weydemeyer, ‘Nationalékonomische Skizzen’.