Manchester 23 Septbr 1867. Dear Löhrchen, I have received your kind letter &, immediately upon the arrival of the books, dispatched the various copies to their respective recipients – those for Imandt & Strohn by Book Post, well wrapped, the one intended for me, for which I thank Mohr most warmly, sent straight to the bookbinder. It will interest you to learn that already a week ago last Saturday I showed Lafargue the battlefield where the previous Wednesday the great Fenian liberation battle took place. We were actually within ten paces of the railway arch; he will, however, hardly remember it. So that you may see what humanity, and especially cotton humanity, is capable of, I am sending you enclosed the latest disgrace of this kind in the shape of a cotton lustre-yarn wig. These guys are now being manufactured and sold in colossal quantities. Your friend library has happily been elected to the great North German Reichstag for Schneeberg in Saxony against Count zur Lippe and will no doubt soon deliver a grand inaugural speech. The right man in the right place. With cordial greetings to the whole family, sincerely yours F. Engels.