{London,}] 2 September 1854 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Frederic, 

So now you’re a member of the Exchange, and AtrocErHER 
RESPECTABLE. My GraTutations. Some time I should like to hear you 
howling amidst that pack of wolves. 

Heise has written to Imandt, telling him that factory people— 
where I don’t know (nor does he say whether they’re workers or 
manufacturers)—have banded together to appoint him their 
COMMON INsrRUcToR, and that he can count on getting £2 a week. 
Tant mieux pour lui? 

My wife—as I had good reason to fear before she left— 1s RATHER IN 
TOO INTERESTING CIRCUMSTANCES, Otherwise well. 

Cluss has written again at last. I enclose his letter. 

Has your old man arrived yet? 

It is probably time we said something in the Tribune about 

a Always the same. - Good-bye and farewell. - © All yours - 4 So much the better 
for him. 

17* 

military events in Asia. I have made a bit of a howler. In one of 
my recent verrers I declared the News of the total defeat of the 
Turks at Kars to be a Vienna invention.” True, the telegraphic 
dispatch was wrong, but it was nevertheless based on fact.* 

My Principal study is now Spain. So far I have swotted up, mainly 
from Spanish sources, the 1808-14 and the 1820-23 periods. Am 
now coming to the years 1834-43. The thing is not without 
complexity. It is rather more difficult to discover exactly the 
springs behind developments. At any rate I made a timely start 
with Don Quixote.” The whole thing will amount to about 6 articles 
for the Tribune, if much condensed.™ At least it may be counted 
a step forward that aT THIS MOMENT ONE’s STUDIES are paid for. 

Unfortunately the Library * is closed from 1-7 September. Apart 
from other advantages, it’s the only cool place in London. 

Entre nous? Dronke, for want of other ‘intellectual’ stimulus, is 
busily engaged in investigating ‘Steffen’ and, in his letters to 
Imandt, tears him to pieces in an attempt to render him politically 
‘suspect’. I had no difficulty in convincing Imandt of the total 
absurdity of Dronke’s mischievous cavilling. C'est absurde* I 
consider that in Steffen our [party] has made a very good 
acquisition. He has character and education. His views on 
comparative geography, in which he has specialised, are quite 
original. Unfortunately a manuscript in which he elaborated his 
ideas on the subject was left behind in Cologne. 

What is Lupus doing? Miquel didn’t come over from Paris as 
intended because, having had 2 attacks of cholera followed by a 
haemorrhage, he was finally ordered by the doctors to make his 
way back to Germany overland with all dispatch. 

Vale faveque.' 

K. M.