Dear Mohr,

Enclosed £10 in two Bank of England notes. How is it with the bill for the landlord? Give me the amount and the due date, so that I can arrange accordingly.

The malicious compilation of Social-Democratic filth in the Schulze-Delitzsch brochure had already been sent to me anonymously from Berlin; it is always useful to have such a résumé with the extracts. Schulze-Delitzsch has also had it announced that he will be having a reply to Lassalle printed in the next few days, in which he will destroy him. You will already know that Rakowitz has died of consumption; so Miss Dönniges is presumably again in the market, if ever she was fairly out of it. The speech of Mr Held has also been sent to me from Berlin. The typical Berlin scoundrel. Monsieur Bonaparte is very decidedly going the way of the crab. The affairs in the army over Mexico are very serious, and the student affairs in Paris, too. It is very important that the Paris students are siding with the proletariat, however confused their ideas may look in the process. The École polytechnique will follow soon enough. It would be wonderfully splendid if the rascal were to live to see his own downfall, and it almost looks that way now. With Bismarck, too, things are getting daily more rotten, and if the Cologne swine-dogs had not helped him out of the sauce, he would probably be done for already now. I am eager for the next Parliament; the collapse of the old parties must now proceed rapidly. John Bright is evidently bidding for office – I have, of course, not yet read his speech of yesterday. Have you read Tyndall’s: Heat considered as a mode of motion? If not, you should do so. Enormous progress has been made in this field, and the thing is beginning to assume a rational form; the atomic theory is being driven to such an extreme that it must soon collapse. Don’t forget to send me the Workman’s Advocate and the Free Press. Best greetings and good wishes for the New Year to your family.

Your F. E.