AT LE PERREUX 

London, 17 April 1895 
41 Regent’s Park Road, N. W. 

My dear Lohr, 

Yesterday I sent you cheque for £6.9.9., your share of honorarium for the 
Klassenkiimpfe.’ To-day I return registered, book post, your translation with 
thanks and suggestions. °'’ In one passage I had to make an alteration, you 
yourself had marked it as unintelligible, which indeed it was owing to 
omission of a word in the German text. The alteration is at the back of the 
page and requires a little frenchifying at your hands. I hope all your trouble 
will be rewarded by the French reading public! 

* See this volume, p. 491 -° See this volume, pp. n421, 517 

I have at last succeeded in hunting up the old Rheinische Zeitung of 1842. 
It was all this time in the Berlin Bibliothek, and our friends in Berlin, who 
might have known that long ago, only found it out now. Someone in Berlin* 
had a sharper way of doing things than they, and intended publishing Mohrs 
articles therefrom; °’* we have no right to stop this, as according to German 
law all anonymous or pseudonymous works become public property after 30 
years from date of publication, unless copyright has been previously 
registered by the author or other qui de droit.” However this threatened 
competition roused our friends all at once; Fischer who manages now the 
publishing department of the Vorwdrts book-selling firm, has at once, at my 
suggestion, set some one to copy Mohrs chief articles, and will announce 
that I am going to edit them with introduction, etc. This will probably stop 
competition. Financially we can hardly expect much, if anything, therefrom, 
but at all events the articles are safe. 

For the Lassalle letters *** and ulterior plans of republication of old affairs, 
we shall have to await the fate of the Coercion Bill “** before the Reichstag; 
if that passes, I do not see how we can safely proceed to work, at least in 
Berlin. Maybe Stuttgart may remain more favourable—anyhow qui vivra 
verra.” 

I hope you send the Devenir social also to Madrid—our friends there are 
almost entirely dependent, for foreign reading, on French literature, and it 
strikes me they get to see more from other sects’ publications than from ours. 
For if the management of the Socialiste is to serve as a pattern, woe be unto 
us! The Vorwdrts announces the complete reorganisation of that illustrious 
paper, published ‘mit Ausschluss der Oeffentlichkeit’,° and that Chauvin has 
remodelled the publishing department ***—if so, i/ est tellement chauvin' that 
nobody here has seen a trace of it. But then, the Vorwdrts seems to know of 
France only the Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, and if the nouvelles ne sont pas 
assez bonnes, il les fabrique lui-méme. 

Many thanks for your news about Sganarelle, they are quite sufficient for 
the éclairage de ma téte" upon the subject. **” 

I had in my head only the Sganarelle of the Médecin volant and Don Juan. 

* Hans Baake - authorised person - ° See this volume, p. 497 - ‘ wait and see - * in camera - ‘he 
is so chauvinist - © news is not interesting enough, he invents it himself - " enlightenment of my 
mind 

Please tell Paul that if he is in want of a draught composed of L, s, and d 
(in which case the British philistine spells it draft) he is quite welcome to 
one. 

Kind regards from Louise 

Ever yours 
F.E.