Manchester, 26 November 1867 

Dear Moor, 

I have not received the promised letter in quo tua res agebatur.” 

Meissner’s proposal to send out new notices with excerpts from 
the reviews was what I had in mind to suggest to you as soon as 
Siebel’s articles (i.e. the ones I gave him‘) appear. The excerpt 
from the Zukunft is quite good,” but a few more would be even 
better; he should send you the whole caboodle, and you can then 
prepare a notice from it. Or if you do not wish to, then he can 
send it to me and I will do it. I was most struck by the fact that the 
first notice took up precisely the same space as the one for my little 
pamphlet,* and it had not a word of commentary with it.>* 

If the matter does not turn out differently soon, then J shail 
have to write—with your consent of course—to Meissner and offer 
him articles written by myself for newspapers to be specified by 
him. I am sure that could not compromise you. 

I have just managed to convey Meissner’s excuses to Siebe 
before the post office closed. They are admittedly persuasive, 

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4 Victoria - > in which your business was dealt with (see next letter) - © F. Engels, 
‘Review of Volume One of Capital for the Elberfelder Zeitung and ‘Review of Volume 
One of Capital for the Düsseldorfer Zeitung’. -4 F. Engels, The Prussian Military 
Question and the German Workers’ Party. 

Siebel was at the time at a very Low ebb and only recovered in 
Honnef. 

You will have received my letter of Sunday with the returned 
letters." The tanner? returned enclosed, autodidactum integrum,‘ 
which does not, however, mean that other nations are incapable of 
bringing forth such a tanner. Philosophy, which in Jakob Bohme’s 
day was just a shoemaker, is making progress when it assumes the 
shape of a tanner. 

How is the carbuncle? I do not like its location, I hope Lafargue 
has lanced it for you. A stop really must be put to this business. 

Has Borkheim paid you the money? He has not written a word 
to me, although I am guarantor.* 

Your 
F. E.