Manchester, 25 July 1869 

Dear Moor, 

Don’t go grey-haired over the £75; as soon as Gottfried pays 
me my next INSTALMENT, i.e., as soon as the accounts are balanced 
and the contracts signed, I shall send you the sum. Just make sure 
that nothing like this happens again; you know our calculations 
are very tight, and allow absolutely no margin for extravagances. 
Thus, since 1 July, I have been noting all expenditures in order to 
see what all the stuff costs, and in order to find out where 
something can be cut if necessary. 

The new carbuncle proves you must immediately swill arsenic 
again. Do not delay for a day longer. You should have taken the 
case under your arm here as warning, and started. Drinking 
arsenic doesn’t hinder you in your ordinary way of life in any 
manner, so just go on taking it for 3-4 months in order to get rid 
of the business finally. 

As regards your journey, if I were you I would pack my things 
as soon as Jenny is ready and your carbuncle has healed. You can 
then adjust your plans for the journey as you like, and also visit 
worthy Kugelmann. If this way—by ensuring that the period of 
your journey and his cure do not coincide, or only partly—you 
will best avoid the Karlsbad business. Amicus Kugelmann is, with 
regard to his health, certainly a considerable hypochondriac, and 
would certainly be a rather doleful cure-companion in Karlsbad. 
Since I shall not be free before 15-20 August in any case, it would 
be madness for us to consider anything combined. If I should be 
free earlier, we can still see what can be done. 

I should certainly come to serious grips with Mrs Monroe. Jenny 
should go to her and tell her frankly that she needs the cash. 
Perhaps Mrs Monroe is waiting to receive a formal bill: Mrs 
Monroe to Miss Marx. To one HALFYEAR'S TUITION, etc. And if Jenny’s 
visit does not help, I would, in your place, write a polite but firm 
letter. You have to show these Scots that you know what business is, 
and they then respect you all the more. 

The impudence of old Wilhelm exceeds the possible. Trying to 
convince you that, with his lying, he had remained ‘within the 
bounds of your letter’! Just how lazy his conscience is in this 
connection is shown by the fact that he uses the phrase ‘take into 
consideration’ which he otherwise abhors, and by his closing, 
touching appeal to your good heart. The simpleton demands that 
we and the whole International should undergo all his 
metamorphoses in re Schweitzer, concluding peace when he 
concludes peace, thrashing Schweitzer when he thrashes him, and 
allowing him to lie to his heart’s content in the name of the 
International whenever he thinks it ‘necessary’. And he wants to 
prescribe to the Congress who should be admitted and who not. 

Also rather strong that, in the Vogt business he has left the 
defence ‘up to you!’ and this ‘for the sake of the Party’. He really 
takes himself what might be called seriously. 

And how lame is the business with the factory inspectors! The 
government has flatly decided to introduce them, but Liebknecht 
has prevented this, naturally in the interests of the workers, so that 
they shall not be bribed by them. Bismarck prevented by 
Liebknecht! Quite something! Not to mention the craftiness of 
such a policy. 

The 18th Brumaire received yesterday with thanks. The book 
reads much better in a decent binding and without the misprints. 
The introduction is very good. This, and the book itself, will bring 
Wilhelm no pleasure. The manner in which democracy, and even 
more Social-Democracy, is treated is by no means grist to his mill, 
but rather on his head. Incidentally, he can no longer say he has 
no agitational material: we shall see what he does with it. 

I am now on the Journals, Conversations and Essays on Ireland by 
Mr Senior (1843-58). Some facts and a few nice admissions, but 
generally only of special interest because they are stated by such a 
‘respectable’ man. Therefore valuable for me, 2 volumes, 1868. 
I don’t think there will be anything new in it for you. 

If Schweitzer had not got such a bad conscience, and if he had 
not committed the stupidity recently of threatening the Internation- 
al, then he would certainly have responded to Liebknecht’s bull of 
excommunication; he would have challenged the General 
Council on the question and then you would have had to disavow 
Monsieur Wilhelm. Instead of excommunicating Schweitzer in the 
name of the IWA, why does Wilhelm not grab Schweitzer because 
of this threat, and with this help put the General Council in a 
position in which it must say something in response to Schweitzer’s 
threat? The fellow really is too clumsy. 

The business with Bracke is also good. These Lassallean 
menials are always shouting for money, just money. In my 
opinion, it would be very ill-advised of the IWA to send the 
Germans even one pfennig before they have paid regular dues for 
a period. The demoralisation that has prevailed since Lassalle and 
through him must be firmly removed. 

Enclosed Kugelmann and Wilhelm returned. You will certainly 
be writing to Kugelmann yourself about your journey. Send me 
back Kugelmann’s letter so that I can reply to him; without a bit 
of medical chat he won’t release me. 

Tussy is reading Gétz von Berlichingen, and afterwards I'll give 
her Egmont? Walks have almost ceased in this heat; today it will be 
somewhat cooler. 

Best greetings from all to all. 

Your 
F. E.