It would also be as well to send a copy to Prince Urussov (who is mentioned in Turgeniev's letters). He is greatly interested in everything German, and is a man of rich gifts, an intellectual gourmet. I do not remember his address for the moment, but can find it out. I am glad that in spite of all bodily ills you are working so vigorously and keenly. I am looking forward to all the things you promise me. It would give me great pleasure to be read by you, but unfortunately you do not understand my language. I have produced an enormous amount this summer. I have written two long new books (of twenty-four and twenty-eight sheets), _Impressions of Poland and Impressions of Russia_, besides entirely rewriting one of my oldest books, _Æsthetic Studies_, for a new edition and correcting the proofs of all three books myself. In another week or so I shall have finished this work; then I give a series of lectures, writing at the same time another series in French, and leave for Russia in the depth of winter to revive there. That is the plan I propose for my winter campaign. May it not be a Russian campaign in the bad sense. I hope you will continue your friendly interest in me. I remain, Your faithfully devoted, GEORGE BRANDES. 18. NIETZSCHE to BRANDES. _Turin_, Oct. 20, 1888. MY DEAR SIR, Once more your letter brought me a pleasant wind from the north; it is in fact so far the only letter that puts a "good face," or any face at all on my attack on Wagner. For people do not write to me. I have irreparably offended even my nearest and dearest. There is, for instance, my old friend, Baron Seydlitz of Munich, who unfortunately happens to be President of the Munich Wagner Society; my still older friend, _Justizrath_ Krug of Cologne, president of the local Wagner Society; my brother-in-law, Dr. Bernhard Förster in South America, the not unknown Anti--Semite, one of the keenest contributors to the _Bayreuther Blätter_--and my respected friend, Malwida von Meysenbug, the authoress of _Memoirs of an Idealist_, who continues to confuse Wagner with Michel Angelo.... On the other side I have been given to understand that I must be on my guard against the female Wagnerite: in certain cases she is said to be without scruple. Perhaps Bayreuth will defend itself in the German Imperial manner, by the prohibition of my writings--as "dangerous to public morals"; for here the Emperor is a party to the case. My dictum, "we all know the inæsthetic concept of the Christian _Junker_," might even be interpreted as _lèse-majesté_.