Manchester, 8 December 1868 

Dear Moor, 

Enclosed five pounds and the letters from Lugau™! and 

Schweitzer**° returned. That things would come to this pass with 
Schweitzer was fairly clear to me from _ previous practical 
experience. This honourable gentleman was not inclined to hand 
over his ‘strict’ organisation, headed by the nominal king of the 
tailors; for him the only question was whether good old Wilhelm? 
would subordinate himself to him or not. I don’t exactly mind his 
assessing Wilhelm correctly, but he forgets that he himself, with 
much more brain, is, in his tine, just such a twopenny-halfpenny 

@ 9 December - © Wilhelm Liebknecht 

character as Wilhelm. His confidence that he can regularly be 
given ticket of leave from the cachot? also has an unpleasant ring; he 
should not have written this to you after using this method so often, 
and precisely during his Bismarck era, with such success. 

The Lugau lads’ letter does them great honour. That jackass 
Liebknecht has described the conditions of these workers in his 
sheet” in more than 20 articles, yet only here does one see clearly 
where the infamy lies. Incidentally, Moore says that similar 
conditions—though not so bureaucratically intricate ones—obtain 
in English coalmines. 

The letter from Serno-Solovyevich* was not enclosed. 

In haste. 

Your 
F. E. 

Today in the office I was overrun, without a break, from 
twelve-thirty until five.