London, 28 July 1855 
98 Dean Street, Soho? 

Dear Lassalle, 

I have been staying in the country for the past few weeks in a 
cottage lent me by a friend* who is away in Scotland. That is why 
I did not get your Jetter until yesterday. I have, incidentally, taken 

@ See this volume, pp. 526 and 541.- > Franz von Florencourt - © life and 
doings - 4 The letter is written in Camberwell near London but datelined 
London. - © Peter Imandt (see previous letter) 

19* 

steps to have my letters forwarded to me immediately from town. 

I am, of course, surprised to hear that, despite your proximity 
to London, you are not thinking of coming over here, if only for a 
few days. I hope that you will think it over again and discover how 
short and cheap the journey from Paris to London is. If France’s 
doors were not hermetically closed against me, I would pay you a 
surprise visit m Paris. 

I have several friends in Paris, but I.shall not be able to send 
you their addresses (I am not in town at the moment of writing) 
until I go to Soho, where I keep them. 

Bacon says that really important people have so many relations 
to nature and the world, so many objects of interest, that they 
easily get over any loss. I am not one of those important people. 
The death of my child* has shattered me to the very core and I 
feel the loss as keenly as on the first day. My poor wife is also 
completely Broken pown, 

If you see Heine again, give him my regards. 

Your 
K. M.