Manchester, 9 May 1866 
Dear Moor, 

I am becoming concerned at your silence, I almost fear your 
health is not what it should be. You have not got carbuncles again? 
What is this strange business of Cohen the blind,‘ who cannot 
hit the tall Bismarck with five shots and gets himself arrested by 

a ‘warning’, Marx means his article ‘A Warning’. - > Ernestine Liebknecht - 
© Marx’s conspiratorial pseudonym - 4 Engels makes a pun here: the German word 
blind means without sight, blind; Blind—the name of Cohen’s stepfather. 

him into the bargain. He could have done Bismarck no greater 
favour.°*”° 

It strikes me that the Prussians are 14 days behind the Austrians 
with their mobilisation and cannot attack before the end of this 
inst. If the Austrians take advantage of this, they may win a big 
battle and be in Berlin before the Prussians have concentrated. 

Your 
F. E.