Manchester, 2 October 1866 

Dear Moor, 

You did not tell me that you had signed a bill for £46, which 
was why I sent you half notes for only £40 yesterday; the missing 
halves follow today, as well as a further five-pound-note 
I/F 98815, Manchester, 30 January 1865. 

Our cashier has not got a second five-pound-note, and it’s too 
late for a post office order, so I cannot include the remaining 
sovereign; but you will no doubt surmount that difficulty. 

Regarding Moilin* and Trémaux,” I will write at greater length 
in the next few days; I have not quite finished reading the latter 
yet, but I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing to his 
whole theory because he knows nothing of geology, and is 
incapable of even the most common-or-garden literary-historical 
critique. That stuff about the nigger Santa Maria and the whites 
turning into Negroes is enough to make one die of laughing.*” 
Especially the idea that the traditions of the Senegal niccers 
necessarily deserve credence, just because these fellows cannot write! 
In addition, it is another pretty notion of his to ascribe the 
differences between a Basque, a Frenchman, a Breton, and an 
Alsatian to the surface-structure, which is, of course, also to blame 
for the people speaking four different languages. 

Perhaps the man will demonstrate in the 2nd volume how he 
explains that we Rhinelanders on our Devonian transitional massif 
(which has not been covered again by the sea since long before the 
coal was formed) did not become idiots and niccers ages ago, or 
else he will assert that we are really niccers. 

The book is utterly worthless, pure theorising in defiance of all 
the facts, and for each piece of evidence it cites it should itself first 
provide evidence in turn. 

a J. A. Moilin (le docteur Tony), Lecgons de médecine phystologique (see this volume, 
pp. 309-10, 319).-> P. Trémaux, Origine et transformations de Vhomme... (ibid., 
pp- 304-05, 309-10).