Manchester, 12 December 1867 

Dear Kugelmann, 

Your zeal truly deserves my gratitude, but it appears greatly to 
overestimate my free time. I received your letter of 30 November 
on 2 December, held counsel with Marx, as there were several 
things in it to be considered, and would already have sent you 
various articles, if on Sunday I had not been visited by a 
toothache-influenza-sore throat with inevitable fever, which pros- 
trated me on the sofa. Fortunately, that kind of thing takes an 
acute course with me, and so I am fit for work again today and 
will be setting my nose to the grindstone at once. But you must 
not imagine that one can just toss off a dozen reviews of one and 
the same book* and not merely say something different in each 
one but also so compose them that one cannot tell they are all es 
one author. One often has to pause for thought. 

I would advise against writing directly to Miquel. There are 
some things which can be achieved verbally with such people and 
which are scarcely to be risked in writing. He will surely be coming 
over to Hanover sometime. 

The United States of Europe? was stillborn. And with Vogt’s 
brother‘ and minion as editor— pshaw! 

The Englishman who called on Brandes was our friend Moore 
from here, who spent 7 weeks in Eisenach for German-learning 
purposes; I had no idea he would be passing by, or I should have 
written him a few lines to give to you. He might perhaps have 
called on you anyway, except that he had curiously got it fixed in 
his head that you lived in Hamburg. He will probably undertake 
the English translation of Marx’ book.??? 

Concerning Liebknecht’s South German outburst, I have written 
to him that nothing is achieved by it." He would have done better 
not to publish his speeches,* in extenso their effect is lost, the 
nonsense in them obtrudes too much. I also wrote to him about his 
curious theory on the postponement of the social question.**” You 

athe first volume of Capital-» Les Etats-Unis d’Europe-° Gustav Vogt - 4 W. 
Liebknecht, Was ich im Berliner ‘Reichstag’ sagte.- © literally: at full length; 
figuratively: in print. 

will recall, incidentally, that I was already telling you last autumn 
that he had become too much of an Austrian owing to his hatred 
of the Prussians. 

This brief epistle just to keep you informed. The articles will 
follow in a few days time, and you can then at all events tell the 
Lieutenant-Colonel? that there will be a few more, and there will 
then be something for him to do. 

In friendship 

Yours 
F. E. 

I have just been ejected from the office, as it was closing time.