Manchester, 1 May 1866 
Dear Moor, 

I hope you are happily over your rheumatism and faceache and 
are once more sitting diligently over the book” How is it coming 
a Marx presumably refers to J. S. Mill’s speech in Parliament of 17 April 1866 in 
which he urged the duty of paying off the national debt before Britain’s coal supplies 

exhausted. See The Times, No. 25475, 18 April 1866. - > Lizzy Burns - ¢ Entirely 
yours - 4 Capital 

on, and when will the first volume be ready? By the by, you must 
go on with the arsenic, it should be taken for at least 3 months 
and is quite unconnected with the rheumatism, etc. The liver 
troubles may have been a factor contributing to the carbuncles, by 
disturbing the digestion or blood-formation, and, for that very 
reason, you will also have to go on taking several hours continuous 
exercise regularly each day and keep off working at night, so that 
everything can return to normal. Where the tendency to 
hyperaemia of the liver has established itself in such a classic and 
systematic form as in your case, it does not, of course, just vanish 
again all at once. 

It’s good that you have no more worries about the congress and 
the International Association. Apropos, a shipload of 57 German 
tailors has been imported to Edinburgh to put down a strike and 2 
more loads are expected. Probably from Hamburg. Can you not 
discover the details in Edinburgh and put a stop to this, too? *?” 

Bismarck wants war 4 tout prix,’ and after he failed in Bohemia, 
he seems likely to succeed in Italy.*”* I hope that, if he pulls it off, 
the Berliners will hit out. If they proclaim a republic there, the 
whole of Europe can be overturned in 14 days. But, but, will they? 
How do our connections there stand? 

Have you seen how little Louis Blanc, as a good démocrate 
imperial, is now declaring in the Temps that, if Prussia absorbs the 
smaller German states, France must have at least the left bank of 
the Rhine.’ There’s a real revolutionary for you. 

In order to incite my ancient rage somewhat, in the last few 
days I have been reading the book by Réckel, the 49er imprisoned 
in Dresden, about his treatment in gaol.© These infamies 
perpetrated by the Saxons exceed everything that I have ever 
come across. There will be a harsh reckoning to be had with a 
large number of villains. Such brutality was quite unknown in the 
old days before ‘48, and the Prussian fortresses of that time seem 
like paradise in comparison. 

These Adullamites really are tremendous jackasses to put up 
such resistance to this pauvre* Rerorm Bit, the most conservative 
thing that has ever been done here.*”’ However, quem deus vult 
perdere,° etc. 

I already sent my third article on Poland‘ to The Commonwealth 
3 weeks ago and asked for it to be returned if it should be too late 

4 at any price - > L. Blanc, ‘Lettres de Londres’, Le Temps, No. 1815, 23 April 
1866. - © A. Réckel, Sachsens Erhebung und das Zuchthaus zu Waldheim. - 4 poor - 
€ quem deus vult perdere, prius dementat: whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes 
mad - f F. Engels, ‘What Have the Working Classes to Do with Poland?’ 

for that week. I then received a reply from Fox a week later that it 
could not appear until the forthcoming issue, returning the article 
at the same time. Sent it off again on Wednesday, but too late. 
You were still in Margate at that time. I will send the following 
Nos. to you again if time does not make immediate, direct 
submission necessary. 

Kind regards to your wife and the girls. 

Your 
F. E.