[London,] 9 August 1865 

Dear Frep, 

Letter from Mr Siebold enclosed.?*? You need not send it back. 
Secondly, I am sending you the Hatzfeldt rubbish.* Do not send it 
back, but store it. Don’t show it to anyone either. Fortunately, this 
rubbish has left no trace in the German press. The only thing 
relating to it which appeared publicly in the press was a statement 
by Metzner (ex-authorised representative of the Berlin branch?) 
and Vogt‘ (sri its treasurer), countersigned W. Liebknecht, in 
which they stated: 

1. that Schilling had falsified the report, suppressed some 
resolutions and made others their direct opposite; 

2. that that old girl Hatzfeldt could have spared her comments 
since the Association had forbidden her to interfere in any way. 

That appeared in Reform“ and Volks-Zeitung.?™ 

I have been medicating myself for a couple of days now and am 
feeling utterly rotten, quite incapable of working. But Allen tells 
me that I shall be up and about again in a few days. It’s the bilious 
trouble and a consequence of the ‘bitter’ labour of thinking in the 
Hot WEATHER. Officially ’'m now away from home on account of the 
“INTERNATIONAL . 

Edgar is vegetating. In his hermit-like existence he has become 
accustomed to the narrowest kind of egotism, pondering the needs 
of his stomach from morn till night. But as he is a good-natured 
sort, his egotism is that of a xinp-narurep cat or a friendly dog. To 
the devil with hermit-life. He has even lost all interest in women, 
and his sex-urge has gone to his belly, too. At the same time, he is 
constantly anxious about his precious health, that same lad who 
was, on the other hand, used to feeling ‘safe’ amongst snakes, 
tigers, wolves, and leopards. 

He now wishes he was back in Texas again. But there is no 
escape from the confrontation with his cher frére! 

aC. Schilling, Die Ausstossung des Prdsidenten Bernhard Becker aus dem Allgemeinen 
Deutschen Arbeiter-Verein und der ‘Social-Demokrat’. - » of the General Association of 
German Workers - © August Vogt - 4 Berliner Reform -¢ Edgar von Westphalen - 
{ dear brother (Ferdinand yon Westphalen) 

You can tell what his back-to-nature thinking is like from the 
fact that his present ideal is to set up a store—a cigar or wine 
store— obviously secretly hoping that this will be the surest way to 
apply oneself to the cigars and wine. 

He likes to pretend to be an otp centteman who has settled his 
accounts with life, has nothing more to do and is only living ‘for 
his health’s sake’. 

Besides, he is preoccupied with his attire as well, and the ‘op 
GENTLEMEN’ in Rotten Row”? make him very sad because he cannot 
keep up with them. Queer cove! Laura, who uas a small carbuncle 
on her left cheek jusr Now, says THAT ‘HER MOTHER'S BROTHER IS AN 
EXCEEDINGLY BRIGHT FELLAH!’ “Tussy * “rHAT SHE LIKES HIM, BECAUSE HE IS SO FUNNY’ 
and little Jenny that Lina Schéler and he can congratulate each 
other ‘TO HAVE SAFELY GOT RID OF EACH OTHER’. WELL, THEY ARE A BAD Lor. The 
girls have also SEVERELY CROSS-EXAMINED Me AS TO THE ‘Mrs Burns’. 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M.