{London,] 2 August 1870 

Dear Sir, 

I read in the Rappel of 1 August in a correspondence from 
Francfort-sur-Main of 27 juillet, the following, inter alia: 

“The town is full of people who have been paid to sustain warlike and anti-French 
feeling...’ (sic!). ‘A letter addressed to the Frankfurter Zeitung from London contains, 
among other things, a highly interesting confession. Frenchmen living in London 
decided to issue a proclamation against this Napoleonic war and invited the principal 
German republicans likewise resident in London, to join them. The Germans are 
reported to have refused to take part in the protest on the grounds that the war was 
defensive on the German side.’ 

This misleading report which thoroughly distorts the facts 
concerning the ‘convocation’” issued by you, stems from Blind, the 
correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung. 

I believe that a correction in the Rappel (Bureau de Rédaction, 18, 
Rue de Valois, Paris) will enable you best to achieve the effect you 
originally desired. 

Yours, 
K. Marx