{[London,} 16 July 1857 

Dear Frederic, 

I have today sent you the Ristow,’ which you should return as 
soon as possible, since Steffen is working on it just now. I told him 
I wanted it for myself. 

The enclosed notes are of little value, Excerpt perhaps for a 
quotation or two.” I did, in fact, take a look at the Encyclopaedia 
Britannica but there was no time to read it properly. I fear that 
the notes will contain little that is new to you. Were taken from: 
Ersch and Gruber: Encyclopédie universelle’; Pauly: Realencyclopédie 
der classischen Alterthumswissenschaft (1844-52). Impossible for me to 
read the works themselves just now. Pity I didn’t apply myself to 
them sooner. The Encyclopaedia Britannica seems to have been 

a W. Riistow, Heerwesen und Kriegführung C. Julius Casars. - > This probably refers 
to the French translation of Allgemeine Encyclopadie der Wissenschaften und Künste... 
herausgegeben von J. S. Ersch und J. G. Gruber. 

copied pretty well word for word from the German and French 
works and hence is difficult to get away from unless one reads the 
specialised writings. 

My wife better physically; however still in bed; also extraordi- 
narily out of temper for which, au fond de coeur* and UNDER PRESENT 
auspices, I don’t blame her though I find it wearisome. 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 
I trust your health keeps improving.