You must forgive my silence, even now I have only time to write a few lines. You know that throughout the period of the last Paris revolution I was denounced continuously as the grand chef de l'Internationale by the Versailles papers (Stieber  collaborating) and par repercussion  by the press here in England. And now the Address, which you will have received.  It is making the devil of a noise and I have the honour to be at this moment the best calumniated and the most menaced man of London. That really does one good after a tedious twenty years idyll in my den. The government paper the Observer threatens me with a legal prosecution. Qu'ils osent! Je me moque bien de ces canailles l !  I am enclosing a cutting from the Eastern Post,  because it has our answer to Jules Favre s  circular. It appeared originally in the Times of 13 June. That honourable paper received a severe reprimand from Mr Bob Lowe  (Chancellor of the Exchequer and member of the Supervisory Committee of the Times) for this indiscretion. My best thanks for the Reuters and my best compliments to Madame la Comtesse et ma ch re Fr nzchen.
Marx-Engels Correspondence 1871