Edit Text: Letter to Nikolai Danielson, July 22, 1871

''To Nikolai Danielson in St Petersburg'' ====<nowiki>[</nowiki>London,<nowiki>]</nowiki> 22 July <nowiki>[</nowiki>1871<nowiki>]</nowiki>==== Dear Friend, Excuse me for answering with such a delay. I have been so much <em>overworked</em> during this latter time that I got hardly to bed. Hence I could not think of doing anything concerning <em>The Capital</em>. Next week, however, I shall commence and make the whole thing ready for you. <em>I had a packet ready for Berlin</em>, but, unfortunately, it has, by some mistake, not been sent off. It is still here. So please send me a new address for Berlin, and I shall dispatch the packet at once. As to our mutual friend <nowiki>[</nowiki>Hermann Lopatin<nowiki>]</nowiki> the most alarming news has arrived here, but, I hope, it is false, or at all events exaggerated. If you were able to find me a <em>correspondent in Berlin</em> who might serve as an intermediary for some of the commercial business I have to transact with Petersburg, it would be a useful thing, and for <em>some articles</em> that circuitous way might prove shorter than the direct way. The straight line is not in all cases, as the mathematicians fancy, the shortest one. Yours most faithfully,<br>A. Williams