in London

[Manchester] 3 Jan. 1869

Caro Morot,

A happy New Year! and my best good wishes on the Paris New Year’s gift. I fancy you and your wife cannot look at one another now without laughing over the new dignity.

The Basle story is still not entirely clear to me from the *Vorbote*, so I am eager for the promised supplements, likewise for the further developments of the Bakuniniad. B[akunin]’s speeches in the *Kolokol* are very stupid. The fellow seems to have learnt nothing since the year dot. It interested me to learn from it that he is still in league with Herzen. Herzen is now completely in the shit, otherwise he would not give up the *Kolokol*. Besides, the fellow now writes a *français à lui* that is quite appalling – and the man lives in a French-speaking country! Bakunin’s French is much better.

Thanks for the *Cloche* and the *Diable à 4*; the impudence is indeed great. A few Orleanist millions, thrown among the generals just now, would be very desirable.

Best greetings and good wishes to the whole family.

Yours,
F. E.