Manchester, 5 March 1866 
Dear Moor, 

Gumpert is décidément of the opinion that, just as soon as your 
condition allows, you should go to the seaside for at least 4 weeks 
and in any case have a change of air. Now what do you think of 
that? Would you prefer to go to a seaside resort near here 
(Lytham, or Blackpool or New Brighton perhaps) or on the south 
coast? Make your minp up about it, and if the former, then come 
up here. I shall raise the money for the purpose and, as I 
promised you, a bit more as well. These constantly recurring 
carbuncles have really just got to stop, or you will be unable either 
to work or to do anything else. So, you must reach a decision. 

You yourself disrupted my contributions for The Commonwealth‘ 
by asking for something on Prussia as well as on the Polish 
business. As a result, the one was interrupted and the other not 
completed in time either. I was suddenly collared to canvass for the 
money for the Schiller Institute ** which I told you about, and that 
kept me off it every evening last week, and I have to go out again 
now. I expect to have got that behind me in a fortnight but, at all 
events, to dispatch an article on Poland this week. 

a Eleanor Marx - » decidedly -¢ F. Engels, ‘What Have the Working Classes to 
Do with Poland?’-4 See this volume, p. 228. -€ See present edition, Vol. 20, 
pp. 402-04. 

10* 

Fine revelations from Jamaica. And what an embarrassment 
they are to The Times, as well as Russell’s resignation. The paper is 
going pown very rapidly.*” 

If possible, you must read the statement by the Cologne-Minden 
directors about their shady deal. They say that insofar as they are 
party to it, it is in law just a private arrangement; as soon as the 
King? ratifies it, he will have to sort out the constitutional side. In 
other words, the bourgeoisie in Cologne themselves do not want to 
have a constitution.*” 

Kind regards to the .anirs. 

Your 
F. E.