Manchester, 5 October 1860 

Dear Moor, 

Enclosed £5 note E/L 33688 Manchester, 12 Jan. 60. 

I would have sent it sooner, but Gumpert touched me for ten 
pounds, after which I had to wait a day or two so as not to make 
myself conspicuous by drawing a lot of money all at once. 

As to printing in London, the chief consideration, of course, is 
that the thing‘ should appear and appear quickly; but printing in 
Germany was preferable and could undoubtedly have been 
arranged. However snare Petsch may be, a German publisher, e.g. 
Meissner (who is far from being the philistine you imagine him to 

 soldiers - > of the pamphlet Herr Vogt -° K. Marx, Herr Vogt. 

be—just take a look at his list) is in a much stronger position to 
break the censpiration du silence. Nor do I account it in any way a 
blessing that the party is thus also compelled to invest capital, for 
we've little enough as it is. 

Title—I would repeat, and this is quite definitely Lupus’s 
opinion also, that at any rate, a title that requires one to read half 
the book before one finds out what it means could not be more 
unhappy. Your philistine has long since ceased to take such an 
interest in Vogt as to puzziz over why you should call him Da-Da. 
The only thing that can make Vogt interesting is his connection 
with Bonaparte and Plon-Plon, and this you must emphasise in the 
title, if you are to arouse the philistine’s curiosity. So far as the 
title is concerned, your system or Mockery AND contempt“ is unlikely to 
produce anything but a title that is affected or contrived. A simple 
title is surely the best; mockery anp contempt comes in the book soon 
enough. 

So, pére Garibaldi has drubbed the Neapolitans again after all, 
and taken 2,000 prisoners.” The impression the chap makes on 
the troops must be tremendous. It’s an excellent thing that Turr 
should have been discredited along with Riistow’s theory.‘ 
Otherwise, the latter would undoubtedly have taken it into his 
head to become the German Garibaldi; among the bourgeois 
republicans, the chap could come to be dangerous. It will probably 
be all up with Bombalino before long; the troops will soon have 
nothing left to eat and will disperse, for the area is not large 
enough to support them. Apart from that, there’s nothing to be 
said about the affair for the time being. By the way, there’s no 
denying that the ré galantuomo“ is playing his hand with a great 
deal of piuck if he should now go to Naples. 

The success of my rirte article* was not altogether fortuitous. I 
sent the little sheet,’ boldly marked in red, to the main London 
papers and the press up here and wrote to them more or less as 
follows: *The Correspondent, for England, of the Allgemeine 
Militdr-Zeitung presents his compliments to the Editor of the ... 
and begs to call his attention to an article of his in the Volunteer 
Journal (a copy of which is sent by post) on the Newton review. As 
this is the first professional opinion of a foreign military paper on 
the voluntary movement, it may be of interest.*—Quite anony- 

« See this volume, pp. 83, 202. - > father - © See this volume, p. 389. - 4 Gallant 
king (Victor Emmanuel IJ) - * ‘A Review of English Volunteer Riflemen’ -! The 
Volunteer Journal, for Lancashire and Cheshire 

mously, of course. I didn’t write to The Times but they published an 
excerpt, nevertheless.* 

Siebel has sent me a portrait of his betrothed,” very pretty. 
Marie Antoinette with just a tiny soupeon of the virtuous Eugénie, 
but exceedingly mannish, notwithstanding—suHe wiILL WEAR THE 
breeches. His ‘sensible creature’ will surprise him yet. Madame la 
baronne, her mother, was a milliner-cum-shop assistant in Diissel- 
dorf and is still said to frequent Kipper’s beer garden, where she 
puts away her 3 or 4 pints in an afternoon. Or so the philistines 
say. 

According to the latest reports, Garibaldi is the grandson or 
great-grandson of the Dr Jos. Bapt. Maria Garibaldi of Ajaccio 
who was sent to Germany by King Vheodore Neuhof, married 
Miss Katharina von Neuhof in Westphalia and, after the over- 
throw of his brother-in-law, settled in Nice.*?? His face certainly 
has a Westphalian cast to it. Ewerbeck and Willich are both 
caricatures of G. in their own way. 

In number one, volume three, of Kolatschek’s German monthly 
there is said to be a very pointed article against Vogt.‘ 

Kind regards to the ramiy. 
Your 

F. E.