Manchester, 25 July 1859 

Dear Moor, 

Have written to Duncker. Also about the total absence up till 
now of any advertisements of your book* in the Augsburg 
Allgemeine Zeitung and Koélnische Zeitung. | can’t possibly do an 
article on it this week; it is quite an undertaking and I should have 
had norice of it somewhat earlier. Besides, ’'ve begun the military 
article” and want to get it finished quickly. However, I promise to 
do the article for next week. 

Some nonsense was edited into my last article. I said that, 
during the march from Pavia, the 5th corps so exerted itself on 
the 3rd and 4th* that, had the 4'/, hours lost through the halt 
been put to use, the result would not have been materially 
different, nor would the corps have arrived on the battle-field 

4 A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy - » ‘The Italian War. Retrospect’ - 
© ‘Karl Marx. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy’- 4 3 and 4 June 1859. 
Engels speaks of the first instalment of his article ‘The Italian War. Retrospect’. 

appreciably earlier. In print it says that it was the halt alone which 
made that exertion possible, which 1. is just the opposite and 2. is 
nonsense. In the first place the troops were not in the least tired at 
6 o'clock in the morning of the 3rd, having only just moved off, so 
that the halt could be of no benefit to them, and secondly the halt 
deprived them of the cool hours of the morning and forced them 
to march when the midday heat was at its greatest. To any military 
man, the sentence as it now stands would seem quite preposterous. 
Much good all these stylistic improvements do me anyway, if 
printing errors are responsible for the most egregious nonsense, 
e.g. rest for thrust (!) and so forth. My articles are particularly 
distinguished by this kind of nonsense, the remainder being 
tolerably well corrected. 

How, by the way, could you permit Herwegh’s lousy poem’ to 
be included? 

Quanto al danaro,” Dronke will be back here again in a 
fortnight’s time (about 10 days from now, that is), so I shall have to 
put everything off till then. Nor have I any news of Lupus. Where 
to get money from in the meantime is difficult to say. Ill try 
Heckscher, but just now I have my hands full and a great deal of 
my time is taken up with the article on your book. If only Strohn 
were here! Gumpert is at home, confined to bed with laryngitis 
and unable to speak. However, I shall see; if at all possible 
Heckscher will have to keep the paper going this week. But the 
miserly Freiligrath should certainly be made to cough up. 

How funny that you should have obtained so flattering an 
opinion from Mr Liebknecht too.‘ It’s just like these folk. The 
gentlemen are so used to our doing their thinking for them that 
invariably and without exception they want to have everything 
presented to them not only on a platter, but already pre-digested, 
not only the quintessence in the smallest possible space, but also a 
detailed exposition, READY COOKED AND fried, One is expected to 
perform miracles, ni plus ni moins.’ What does an ass of that 
species really want? As though he couldn’t discover for himself 
from the first 3 lines of the preface that this first instalment was to 
be followed by at least 15 others before he got to the final 
conclusions. Naturally, the solutions to ticklish monetary problems, 
etc., mean nothing whatever to Liebknecht, seeing that such 
problems simply don’t exist for him. But the least one could ask of 

4 Engels refers to Georg Herwegh’s poem written on the occasion of the Federal 
Marksmen’s Festival in Zurich and published in Das Volk, No. 12, 23 July 
1859. - > As for money - © See this volume, p. 473. - 4 neither more nor less 

such a blockhead is that he should take in at least those few points 
that happen to suit his book. However, what recks a cow of 
Sunday? 

The Russian document*” ought not to be reprinted in such 
short sits, otherwise one completely loses the thread.* Mr 
Petersen’s lucubrations also become tedious in the long run.?*” It’s 
true you were in difficulty last week. 

Mr Bonaparte’s speeches get ever more comical. The one he 
made before the diplomatic corps is really too funny.‘ And the 
fellow kept clapping his hand to his sword all the while! The fool 
seems quite seriously determined to impose himself on the world 
as the ‘old one’,’ at least so far as le dehors is concerned. 

Kossuth has been spreading it about that he’s been away in 
Lussinpiccolo! 

Many regards. 

2 

Your 
F. E.