Manchester, 6 January 1868 

Dear Moor, 

If you do not want to take arsenic, then for goodness sake do 
something else, for things cannot go on like this. Have you 
consulted Allen or another doctor recently? Gumpert was not at 
home when I called the other day, but I shall take the first 
opportunity to speak to him. 

You did not send the Beobachter or the 2 Urquharts either.* 
However, today Kugelmann sent me the Beobachter and the 
Württemberg Staats-Anzeiger (I am sending you the latter and 
when I get it back will send it to Meissner, if you do not send it to 
him direct). It’s fine that these two papers have risen to the bait. I 
shall now also prepare Kugelmann something for the Schwdbischer 
Merkur 

Schorlemmer will put together the information for you from the 
latest annual reports. He was not acquainted with the book by 
Fraas.° 

A natural scientist has appeared in Paris who calls him- 
self Chmoulevitch (Schmulsohn!). This even beats Ephraim Art- 
ful.¢ 

The first instalment of the Austrian official general staff report 
on the war of 66 first proves that Austria’s military organisation 
was not fit for a simultaneous war with Prussia and Italy, this is 
followed by the naive passage: Under these circumstances it 
should really have been the task of state foreign policy to 
safeguard the state against such a war.‘ 

The Prussian 2nd instalment’ shows quite clearly that on the 
28th, and even more on the evening of the 29th,* Benedek was in 
a position to attack the scattered columns of the Crown Prince 
with superior force and with almost absolute certainty to throw him 

@ See this volume, p. 508. - > F. Engels’ reviews of Volume One of Capital for the 
Beobachter and for the Staats-Anzeiger für Württemberg. -¢ K. Fraas, Die Natur der 
Landwirthschaft. - 4 Ferdinand Lassalle - ¢ Osterreichs Kaémpfe im Jahre 1866..., Bd. 1, 
S. 60-61. -£ Der Feldzug von 1866 in Deutschland... (appeared in instalments) - 8 of 
June - * Frederick William