[London, about 11 March 1854] 

Dear Frederic, 

Enclosed a letter from Lassalle.*” 

You would greatly oblige me by letting me have some military 
stuff for Tuesday.* The 2nd edition of The Times, which you'll get 
on Monday, contains sundry things on Shamyl, etc. If I don’t 
produce anything on military affairs, even though it be only 
tittle-tattle, A.P.C.° will steal a march on me; he cribs unblushingly 
from the London newspapers. 

Your 
K. M.