Manchester, 1 September 1867 

Dear Moor, 

I have just received payment for a very long-standing bad debt 
of £5 which will put me in a position to send you that sum 
tomorrow as soon as I have cashed the cheque. Otherwise, I should 
have been in something of a fix, what with the repayment of the 
£45 to Borkheim now due. What about Borkheim, is he back? I 
am now able and therefore wish to settle up. 

The 8 sheets* received with thanks. The theoretical side is quite 
splendid, as is the exposition of the history of expropriation. But 
the piece you have inserted on Ireland was done in the most 
fearful haste, and the material is not properly knocked into shape 
at all. On first reading often positively incomprehensible. Further 
comments as soon as I have considered the stuff more closely. The 
résumé on the expropriation of the expropriators is most brilliant 
and will create quite an effect.*” 

It is fortunate that almost all of the book is ‘enacted’ in England, 
so to speak; otherwise para. 100 of the Prussian Penal Code would 
be operable: ‘Whosoever ... shall incite the subjects of the State to 
hatred or contempt of each other’,> etc.—and confiscation would 
ensue. Bismarck seems to be needing to stage a little demonstra- 
tion against the workers anyway. In Erfurt or thereabouts a 
Lassallean poet, printer and publisher** have been arraigned for 
high treason, and in Elberfeld they have even confiscated a scrawl 
by the noble Schweitzer. So, it is possible that the book would be 
prohibited in Prussia, but, anyway, that would not have any effect 
in present conditions. 

Your 
F. E.