Manchester, 16 September 1868 

Dear Moor, 

I can only write briefly and badly, I have rheumatism in my 
right hand and have been writing all the afternoon. 

Enclosed a ten-pound note. When Borkheim returns, you 
absolutely must force him to undertake some sort of coup, if 
nothing else can be done. You will understand that I myself find 
things rather tight at the moment. Did you ever write to Meissner 
asking for a settling of accounts? With the workers bombarding 
from all sides now, the burking will soon come to an end, and the 
second edition* will not have to be awaited for long. Now is the 
time to insert a new advertisement for the book. Think one out, I 
shall send it to Meissner, whom I owe an answer anyway. But 
don’t put it off. Furthermore, Meissner should be sent The Times 
with the resolution of the Germans in Brussels, the Demokratisches 
Wochenblatt of yesterday,’*° etc., the man must be kept happy. If 
you have not done it, do it (I can no longer get that No. of The 
Times here). And then the exchange value, too, will gradually 
come into effect for you. 

The things in The Times in Eccarius’ report” will be a big help 
to you here, and Mr Morley will be amazed.* The papers here also 
carry fairly full extracts from the report (but most in The Daily 
News). 

athe second German edition of Volume I of Capital-> [J. G. Eccarius,] ‘The 
International Working Men’s Congress. (From a Correspondent)’, The Times, 
No. 26230, 15 September 1868.-* See this volume, p. 81. 

The congress went well after all. The method of conducting the 
babble in public and the susiness on the quiet has worked 
splendidly. So, the Counc. will remain in London, and once again 
the Proudhonists have only the satisfaction of having resolved that 
they are Proudhonists, and nobody else is. 

One might also send Meissner the No. of the Zukunft about 
Lloyd, etc., in which you are mentioned twice. I can do all this, if 
you want. 

Moses Hess amused me greatly.’?! 

But the question now arises: Has not a popular short 
presentation of the content of your book for workers become an 
urgent necessity? If it is not written, some Moses or other will 
come along and do it and botch it up. What do you think of it? 

Enclosed also Eichhoff back.* 

It is impossible to leave without stupidities being committed. 
While I was away,'”? the fellows on the comité of the Schiller 
Institute,” acting on the suggestion of the Bradfordians, invited 
that swine Vogt to give a lecture here. I naturally announced my 
resignation at once, ‘in order not to give an indirect vote of 
confidence to a man who, I considered it proved, was a paid 
Bonapartist agent in 1859’. The swine is coming tomorrow. 

Your 
F. E.