Dear Mohr,

I can only write briefly and badly, I have rheumatism in my right hand and have been writing all afternoon. Enclosed a ten-pound note. When Borkheim comes back, you absolutely must force him into some coup, if nothing else can be done. You will realise that I myself am now rather hard up.

Have you once written to Meissner about the settlement of accounts? With the bombardment that the workers are now carrying out from all sides, the conspiracy of silence will soon cease and the second edition will not be long in coming. Now is the time to have a new advertisement for the book inserted. Think one up, I’ll send it to Meissner, to whom I still owe a reply anyway. But don’t drag it out.

Furthermore, the *Times* with the resolution of the Germans in Brussels, yesterday’s *Demokratisches Wochenblatt*, etc., should be sent to Meissner; we must keep the man warm. If you haven’t done it, do it (I can no longer get hold of the issue of the *Times* here). And gradually the exchange-value will then also come in for you. The things in the *Times* in Eccarius’s report will be very useful to you here, and Mr. Morley will open his eyes. The local papers here also carry fairly full extracts from the report (though not the *Daily News*).

The congress has still gone off well. The method of dealing with the twaddle publicly and the business in private has proved splendidly effective. The Council thus remains in London after all, and the Proudhonists have again only the satisfaction of having resolved that they are Proudhonists, but no one else does. Also the issue of *Die Zukunft* on Lloyd etc., where you are mentioned twice, should be sent to Meissner. I can attend to all that if you like.

Moses Hess has greatly amused me. But now the question is: Is not a short popular account of the contents of your book for workers an urgent need? If it is not done, some Moses or other will come along and do it, and bungle it. What do you think of it?

Enclosed also Eichhoff back. One simply cannot go away without stupidities being committed. While I was away, the fellows in the committee of the Schiller Anstalt, at the instigation of the Bradford lot, invited that swine Vogt to give a lecture here. I naturally at once declared my resignation ‘in order not to give indirectly a vote of confidence to a man whom I held to have been proved to be a paid Bonapartist agent in 1859’. The swine is coming tomorrow.

Your F. E.