Manchester, 24 June 1863 

Dear Moor, 

I have absolutely no idea what the little susysopy* wants. Why 
doesn’t he write and tell me that he wants the matter settled now? 
He wrote and told me that, if I didn’t reply, he would draw on 
me as arranged. So far as I’m concerned, if a matter is settled, it’s 
settled and I therefore thought it totally unnecessary to send him 
another written assurance a fortnight before the date stating that I 
would do what I had already undertaken to do, both verbally and 
in writing. Basing myself on your letter, which casts quite a 
different light on his motives, I have now written to him as 
requested.”*”? My acceptance will be for £250. Make sure he sends 
you the whole amount, since he has undertaken to pay the expenses 
and interest himself. 

Have finished Kinglake.’ Never before has there been anything 
as superficial) (though some of the material is very good, if 
scrappy), stupid and ignorant as his Battle of the Alma. Only la 
part des frangais is well and accurately depicted—in general, at 
least. Otherwise, much that is highly amusing to the military 
reader.‘ 

4 Ernst Dronke - » A. W. Kinglake, The Invasion of the Crimea. - © the part played by 
the French - 4 Engels discussed the book in ‘Kinglake on the Battle of the Alma’ (see 
present edition, Vol. 19). 

Things are going rottenly in Poland. The Polish government’s 
grand effect, the mass uprising in June, has obviously come to 
grief*** owing to a shortage of weapons and, failing any external 
imbroglios, a gradual decline is now inevitable. 

Your policy in regard to Izzy is quite right.* Besides, what’s the 
use of all this camaraderie towards a chap who either finds himself 
compelled by circumstances to go along with us at a crucial 
moment, or else openly becomes our enemy. To allow the fool to 
steal one’s ideas for years on end and be rewarded for it by having 
to answer for all his stupidities—that’s a bit too much. 

Someone has sent for me. 

Your 
F. E.