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[London,] 26 April 1877
To Mr B. Lindheimer

The tales you first told me about your relations and your contacts
in the City are so completely at variance with everything you now say
that I regret I shall be unable in future to place any faith in your
words. The fact that your relations are reluctant so much as to
entrust you with money for your journey and that your supposed
friends in the City merely refer you to the German society is even less
calculated to inspire me with confidence. I do not know the party
members you invoke,’ nor if I did would their general testimony
signify much in the face of such facts. Hence I regret that I can do
nothing further for you in this matter.

Faithfully