[Manchester,] 11 November 1866 
86 Mornington St. 

Dear Moor, 

Many thanks for The Free Press. Can you send me the August 
and September issues? I have not received them. 

Encl. the 2nd halves of the £30. I would have liked to send you 
more, but I really cannot. I'll see what I can do next month, and 
on 31 December we shall be doing our accounts again; if they turn 
out well, no doubt we shall be able to manage a bit more. 

The news that the manuscript* has gone off is a load off my 
mind. So, a commencement d’exécution” at last, as the Code pénal has 

a of the first volume of Capital - > commencement of proceedings 

it.**’ To that end I shall drink a special glass to your particular 
health. The book has greatly contributed to wrecking your health; 
once you have got it off your back, you'll be quite a different 
fellow again. 

I hope that Birch despatched the port yesterday, but I am none 
too sure of it; at all events, however, it is sure to arrive by Monday 
evening or Tuesday morning. 

Prussians will be Prussians. As a reward for voting for the 
indemnity, Twesten and Frenzel are arraigned for speeches made 
in the Chamber.*** Such stupidity is quite incomprehensible, but it 
is a point of principle. The burghers* of Frankfurt are still furious, 
they are now playing the part of Poles, going about in mourning 
and wearing cravats with the city colours of Frankfurt. A 
Prussian lieutenant entered a Sachsenhausen tavern and found all 
the seats taken. Someone got up in one corner and left, at which 
his neighbour drew the lieutenant’s attention to the empty chair, 
but he said thank you very much, he did not like to sit on a warm 
chair. Oh, said the other, you have no need to worry about that, 
our bums are all freezing since the Prussians have been here. 

I have heard the most marvellous stories here from eyewitnesses 
about the Imperial warfare.’ Such things are unprecedented. E.g., 
the Nassauers were ordered to bridge the Main at Hoéchst. Having 
failed once on account of a storm (a storm on the Main!), they 
found upon their 2nd attempt that they had too few pontoons and 
could only bridge the Main half-way. They therefore wrote to 
Darmstadt, asking for the loan of a few pontoons, which did 
eventually arrive then, and thus the bridge over the horrendous 
stream was completed. Then the Nassauers immediately received 
orders to march south. They left the bridge standing, without a 
guard, merely leaving it to the care of an old boatman to see that 
it did not drift away down the Main. A few days later, the 
Prussians arrived, took possession of the completed bridge, 
fortified it and marched across! 

Your 
F. E.