Manchester, 12 December 1867 
Dear Moor, 

Since Sunday I’ve been having a grand gala performance, with 
toothache, influenza, sore Throat, fever, and all manner of 

a Joseph Dietzgen - > See this volume,p. 476. - ¢ F. Engels, ‘Review of Volume One 
of Capital for the Zukunft’. - 4 Gertruda Kugelmann -¢ Kéniglich Preufischer 
Staats-Anzeiger (see this volume, p. 202) - f Franziska Kugelmann 

unpleasantnesses, only this morning am I fit to work again, and I 
will get down to the Swabian Mayer this evening, following your 
recipe,* which—with some excessively rigorous detail discounted 
which would make the thing 3 times as long—is very nice. 

Burgers has been put ad acta.** By one of the ironies of fate, the 
introduction to the article” sent him by Kugelmann necessarily cut 
him to the quick as the unsuccessful Reichstag candidate for 
Düsseldorf. I quite innocently mentioned in it the fact that the 
social-democratic party could no longer simply be ignored now 
that it is represented in the Reichstag, and that these gentlemen 
would make this book their Bible. With his customary tact, 
Kugelmann sends this to Heinrich. Hine illae lacrimae!* I had quite 
forgotten the matter, and I was only reminded of it by Heinrich’s 
anxious letter, which takes all this most seriously. 

The Zukunft affair is very good.’ Write and tell me when it 
appears,° as I cannot spare the time to consult Zukunft every day 
at the Schiller Institute.” 

Kugelmann becomes more simple-minded every day. If 
Bucher—why not go straight to Bismarck? ** I do not understand, 
or else I’ve forgotten, what he says in the letter of 3 December to 
you about a letter from Meissner enclosed for me. 

Enclosed 1. 2 letters from Kugelmann to you, returned, 

2. 1 ditto m Y ” me and 1 
from Stumpf to Kugelmann. 
3. The letter from Siebel. 
Last post now. Kindest regards to the ladies and Lafargue. 

Your 
F. E.