ENGELS TO MARX” 

Manchester, 7 August 1865 
Dear Moor, 

I have got a remedy for your rheumatism that Gumpert once 
used to cure me with within 24 hours, and from a much more 
severe attack, too. Get yourself 2 big bags of flannel made, big 
enough to cover the affected part completely and a bit over; have 
these bags filled with sran and heated each in turn in the oven, 
just as hot as you can bear it; you put each in turn on the place, 
changing them as often as ever you can. All the while keep 
yourself warm and quiet in bed, and you will soon feel very 
considerable relief, but you mustn’t discontinue the treatment on 
that account until all the pain has gone (say 24-36 hours). 

Eichhoff has just called; he has got himself made pirecror of a 
Limited company in London; it is crystal clear to me from the whole 
affair that the idea is for him to be duped of a substantial sum 
again, but there’s absolutely no helping the fellow, with his mania 
for seeing everything couleur de rose.* He has now gone so far as 
believing that the silk-trade here in England absolutely could not 
go on without him. 

I’m so pleased the book? is making rapid progress, for I had 
really begun to suspect from one or two phrases in your last letter 
that you had again reached an unexpected turning-point which 
might prolong everything indefinitely. ‘The day that manuscript is 
sent off, I shall drink myself to kingdom come, that is, unless you 
come up here the next day so that we can seal it together. 

Many thanks for the Free Presses. 

Our worthy Liebknecht simply cannot help putting his foot in it, 
or writing off to people just whenever the mood takes him. We 
shall always be annoyed with him for 10 months out of 12, as soon 
as he is by himself and has to act on his own initiative. In the 
meantime que veux-tu?* Liebknecht does as Liebknecht is, and all 
the exasperation and all the grumbling will not help matters. And 
after all, when all’s said and done, at the moment he is the only 
reliable link we have in Germany. 

@ through rose-coloured spectacles - > Capital - © what would you have? 

A Workingmen’s concress In Brussels would certainly be the greatest 
stupidity in present circumstances.”!”? Just remember our own 
experiences in that little country.” That sort of thing can only be 
done in England, the Frencumen ought to know that. It would just 
be throwing away money and time and trouble to attempt 
anything of that kind in Belgium. 

Have you got Schilling’s pamphlet on B. Becker?* You might let 
me have it for a couple of days. 

I don’t know whether Strohn is in Hamburg or Bradford, I 
haven’t heard anything from him for quite a long time now. 

The Rhineland philistines are supposed to be frightfully angry 
with Bismarck; it is splendid that those jackasses are having their 
‘historical development on a legal basis’ so nicely demonstrated. 
Have you seen Bismarck’s latest dodge to raise money? The 
Cologne-Minden Railway had granted the state the right to buy up 
its shares at par in return for an interest-guarantee from the state 
(100-taler shares are now standing at over 200 talers); he has 
bartered away this right to the Railway for 13 million talers, and 
the Kélner Zeitung calculates that in this way he got hold of 30 
million talers, including sale of the shares already owned by the 
state, etc. The question is, will the Cologne-Minden Railway pay 
up without the Chamber’s approval for the deal. If it does so, 
Bismarck will again have a clear road for years ahead, and the 
philistines will have been atrociously shitted upon. We shall soon 
see.” 

Lizzy? says Edgar‘ can’t have been wearing his Texan hat, or he 
couldn’t possibly have caught a cold in the nose. 

Your 
F. E.