| 10 Bayrische Strasse.
(Mark my new Adress!!)
Jan. 18, 1866.

Dear Williams!

I received your note yesterday, together with the Papers and the Cards.

​ ​ ​To morrow I have a private interview with the President of the “Arbeiterbildungsverein” about the I. A. There is no doubt, we shall have a branch here before a fortnight is over, but I hope more is to be done, and we shall be able to get a footing in the Central Committee of the German Arbeiterbildungsverein.​ ​(Schulze’s creation!). In a few days I shall go to Berlin, and make arrangements; there everything is going splendidly.​

​ ​ Did you receive a letter from Berlin about the old “Manifest”? Quenstedt, who emerges from his mysterious Mrs. Harris-State into stern reality, intends paying the greater part of the costs, Meyer and other will defray the remainder. ​If you did not receive the letter, write at once, whether you still give your permission for the reprinting, and whether you don’t wish to write a short Preface?​

Last Sunday, Hofstetten came to see me; at first I intended throwing him downstairs but he had such a rueful countenance, and said Pater peccavi in such a pitiful manner, that I could not stick to my purpose. He walked about my room for 6 hours! and smoked 9 cigars to the horror of my wife, and only when he had put No. 10 into his mouth he mustered courage enough, to ask me, if there was | a chance of our writing again for the Social Democrat. I gave him no hope.

And yet,—might we not use the paper as a, so to say “officious” organ? Hofstetten would give any written declaration or bond, that might be required. I think the Soc. Dem. might do some service for the Int. Associat. and your name would not have to be mentioned in the affair. Of course, you know that it has broken off all connexion with B. Becker (who calls himself a “dead lion”, being modest for the first time in his life, and forgetting that a living ass is worth more than a dead lion) and with the rotten remains of Lassalle’s “glorious creation”. Tell me immediately your opinion on this point so that I may act accordingly in Berlin.

Without our direct or indirect help the S.D. must go to the dogs very soon, that Hofst. told me himself.—He gave me proofs, that the paper is not now in the pay of the Government.—

As I am not quite sure, whether your letter will reach me here, I should advise you to send a second note (just containing the necessary hints about H. and without mentioning names) to Sigfr. Meyer , 6 Ritterstrasse (Ritterstr.) Berlin, where I shall live.

​The Deutsche Wochenblatt (of Eckardt) has brought the Manifest of the Int. Ass. (last week) and the “Coburger Arbeiterzeitung” (once Schulze’isch, but recovered lately) the Statutes. That looks well.

As for Eckardt I have told you already, that he will take anything from you and Engels , and that he should be most happy if he were to get a good Review of your Economy, which—Heaven be praised—seems to be forthcoming at last.

Is Gammage’s History of Chartism tolerable?

Do you know Sargent’s “Rob. Owen and his Social Philosophy”, Smith and Elder 1865?

Apropos,—if it were possible at all, that the Workman’s Adv. could pay anything, be it ever so little, I should be very glad, as I am sadly in want of funds. My lexicographic Scheme has ended in smoke, the bookseller that was to undertake the work, withdrew; and I am not sorry, for I should have had to work from morning to night.

We are pretty well; unfortunately we have lost our servant, and so I have to be maid for all work till the new girl comes. Our new lodging is very nice. I repeat the Adr. 10 Bayrische Strasse.

In a few days you will get the first | volume of a sensation-novel: Jefferson Davis, written by a friend of mine, who would like to see it mentioned in some paper. I do what I am asked to do, and you do what you like. Eccarius might bring a line about it; tell it him and send him the enclosed letter, but don’t forget to write the adress on it. (I shall write for the W.A. whether it pays or not.)

My wife begs to be kindly remembered to the whole house Williams, and so does your

J. Miller.