Manchester, 26 January 1866 

Dear Moor, 

What is holding me up is that I have no material and hardly any 
recollection either about the way in which the emancipation of the 
serfs was finally carried out in Russia, what land the peasant 
received, who paid for it, what his present de facto relation is to 

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the landowner, etc., etc. I have undoubtedly seen the earlier plans 
of the nobility and the emperor,’ but not the definitive implemen- 
tation. Have you any material on it? 

Your 
F. E. 

N.B. I shall not refer directly to the article in the 1864 Tribune; 
cela serait lui faire trop d’honneur-