(Harrogate,] 7 December 1873 

Dear Engels, 

Of the £60 you gave me, about £23 remained for my journey 
(having made payments as follows: £10 to Moore* et Co.; 
instalments: £5 to BEERMAN, £5 to grocer, £5 to Withers, £2.17sh. 
interest to the pawnbrokers, £4 dress, boots, etc., for Tussy, £5 
left for my wife). With £10 more I shall have Larcety enough, but 
will need £12 if I return via Manchester, as I promised Gumpert, 
and stay there for 2 days. 

Be so good as to give my wife only £20 of the £100, and keep 
the £80 for me in reserve, as I have to make major payments on 3 
and 16 January and would not like to expose her to the 
temptation of paying off less urgent debts. 

The £5 will just have to be shoved down the throat of the Co.” 
I shall write to Moore today about collecting the remittances. 

My cold, which was damned severe, has not yet gone completely, 
and I am still downing the medicine which Gumpert prescribed 
me from Manchester as soon as he heard of it. I hope it will be 
cured in 1-2 days. But you can see from the fact that I have not 
felt so well for years, despite this irksome, dizzy-making incident, 
what an extraordinarily beneficial effect the air here and the 
peaceful life have had on me (I have done absolutely no work 
whatsoever). 

I caught the corn through following too literally Gumpert’s 
advice to take vigorous exercise after drinking the waters. It 
should have been clear from the state of the sky that a storm was 
to be expected. 

The cure is doing Tussychen a world of good. Likewise the 
regimen which prescribes bed by 11 o’clock at the latest. 

The table of contents of De Paepe’s planned magnum opus” 
features, as the main section of Book 2, données physiologiques”: 

‘Analysis of Labour Power and Physiological Conditions of Its Existence.’ 1. Karl 

Marx’s theory of labour power, necessary labour and surplus labour.—The great 
economic and social significance of this theory; 2. Physiological analysis of what 

a George Moore - > physiological data 

Marx calls labour power or the power of the labourer—This force comprises three 
principal elements: the power of the nerves, the power of the muscles, the power 
of the senses.* 

You see how he thus takes the opportunity to enter medical 
territory. The section ends: 

14, How the foregoing physiological data enable us to determine, as precisely as 
possible, the value of labour power as the basis of all exchange value and the 
foundation of all economic science. 

The last sounds like a misunderstanding. Then comes the 
theory of population under the heading: ‘Data furnished by the 
study of the functions of reproduction.’ I see from the table of 
contents that because of the delays in publishing the French 
translation of Capital, he is unfamiliar with what has been done 
there and hence has been unable to appropriate it in any way. 

The recalcitrance of the Cuban slaveholders is a GODSEND; it would 
be highly undesirable for the matter to drift on so indecisively. 
Moreover, any unpleasant complication that overtakes Castelar et 
Co. is to be welcomed.” 

Have you read the Pope’s” Encyclical in which, very transparent- 
ly, our handsome William‘ is compared to the Roman Emperors 
who persecuted the Apostles and followers of Christ? ’*° 

The Left in the French Assembly will probably find itself 
subjected to special regulations. The scoundrels are reluctant to walk 
out en masse, for that would mean the end of the security which is 
the citizen’s prime duty, as well as the official position of 
importance and the parliamentary remuneration, etc. 

Gumpert wants to know when you are next going to show 
yourself in Manchester? I have reassured him by saying that you 
would in all likelihood come up on business in the spring. 

Compliments To Mrs Lizzy. 

Your 
K. M.