Manchester, 10 April 1868 

Dear Moor, 

Enclosed letters from Wilhelmchen’ and Siebel, please return 
the former to me. Poor Siebel seems to be having a bad time 
indeed. I shall see him in about 10 days. 

Further, the draft of an advertisement for Meissner; what do 
you think of it? So far it has not been pressing, since he could not 
advertise because of the Easter Fair anyway. 

Yesterday I sent you Nos. 4 to 14 of Wilhelmchen’s rag.° It is 
dreadfully stupid. One who was in England for such a long time 
and who has your book and mine‘ should really know how to put 
the material supplied to him by the workers to other use than 
simply reproducing it at full length. Some anti-federalist passages 
with us in mind are rather comical in connection with the whole 
federalist-Struveist nature of the sheet. 

When I got back here I found such a pile of work waiting that I 
could only see Gumpert yesterday. Enclosed the prescription: on the 

a Demokratisches Wochenblatt - > See next letter and Engels’ letter to Marx of 
2 February 1868 (present edition, Vol. 42). - © Demokratisches Wochenblatt - 
d Presumably the first volume of Capital and The Condition of the Working-Class in 
England. - * See previous letter. 

first 4-5 days you should take it only twice daily, then 3 times, always 
1'/,-2 hours after a meal. And also live well and get plenty of 
exercise. Gumpert laughs at your assertion that arsenic makes you 
stupid. 

The vote on parliamentary freedom of speech is explained by 
the fact that Bismarck had stated previously that for Prussia, for 
the sake of peace, he would concede this point. So it was not even, 
as we thought, proof of the courage of the philistines. 

What Wilhelm says about the American treaty is of course 
nonsense from beginning to end.!° 

Unfortunately, I have a death to announce to Tussy. The poor 
hedgehog ate a round hole in his blanket, put his head through it, 
and got so stuck in it that he was found strangled yesterday 
morning. Peace to his ashes, and BETTER LUCK TO THE NEXT ONE. 

During the 3 days of my absence, the fellows in Liverpool 
swindled cotton up by no less than 3d., from 10d. to 13d. Hence 
so much work. Luckily the holidays intervene, which I am using to 
complete the extracts for the Beesly article.'! I am starting right 
away, and thus close for today. Best greetings to your wife and the 
girls. 

Your 
F. E. 

The wedding was celebrated here with great festivity: the dogs 
had green collars, a Tea party for 6 children, Lafargue’s glass basin 
served as a punch-bowl, and the poor hedgehog was made drunk 
for the last time.