IN ST. HELIER IN JERSEY 

{London,] 31 October 1857 

Dear Frederic, 

Have received two letters from Dana. Says first, that ‘Army’ 
arrived in good time. Secondly, that, because of the commercial crisis, 
notice has been given to all European correspondents except for 
myself and Bayard Taylor; I, however, am to confine myself 
STRICTLY tO | ARTICLE PER WEEK—lately I had been trying to break 

a So much the better. - > We’re now in luck. 

through this limitation—and for the time being write exclusively 
about the InpIAN war and the FINANCIAL CRISIS, 

If you could let me have the History or cannon? by Friday, 1T 
WOULD BE 4 GREAT Boon, As soon as the next mail arrives from India, 
you must write to me at some length about the Delhi affair or 
rather, 1F possible, do the whole article* since this time it has to be 
purely technical. 

I sent the chaps asout 8 sheets under the heading ‘Blticher’, the 
same being sub-titled “Tue Sizstan Army in THE Campaiens Etc.’.°9 = I 
had to spend so much time reading Clausewitz, Müffling,” e Gs; 
some degree of compensation was called for. 

So far as your resolution as to Manchester is concerned, it seems 
to me QUITE RATIONAL, within Heckscher’s timitations. Allen, too, says 
that fatal consequences are likely to result only if the lung is 
affected but that, in the early days after such a business, it behoves 
anyone to take care of himself. 

The doses of iron may have been somewhat too strong. At all 
events it should have an excellent effect on your sopy, The 
weather here has improved during the past few days. 

] should MUCH LIKE, OLD BOY, TO SEE YOU BEFORE YOUR RETURN TO MaAncues- 
ter. There is a certain irony of fate in my being personally 
embroiled in these damned crises. What satisfaction it would give 
Heinzen s’il le savait‘! 

The news as to Schramm is no less saddening for being 
predictable. What do you say to Cavaignac’s peat and the idiocy 
of our liege-lord 4? 

With warm regards from the whole FAMILy, 

Your 
K. M.