Manchester, 11 February 1868 
7 Southgate 

Memorandum from Engels to Mr Moor°%” 

I have received your letter and that from your Honovrase 
Secretary* and return enclosed the Viennese cuttings and Meyer’s 
letter. What a frightful tragedy at the Weydemeyers.*” I am of the 
opinion that an article should be contributed to the Debatte (via 
Richter), and that one should strike while the iron is hot.5” It will 
be sent this week. The ‘specialist criticism’ in the Frankfurter 
Bérsenzeitung” is extremely amusing.*”? It is significant that these 
Viennese literary gents, all Jews as cunning as foxes, who well 
know all the tricks, should regard the German press outside 
Austria as bona fide. 

Duhring amuses me very much. The thrusts at Roscher, Mill, 
etc., were a godsend for him—but what a difference there is 
between the embarrassed tone of the criticism‘ and the saucy 
nature of the pamphlet.* 

I do not believe either there will be war, if only because the 
Peace League ' describes it as unavoidable; in any case, Sadowa* 
has made it impossible for Bonaparte to start a war against 
Germany without great alliances. And since at the best he could 
only get Austria (England, as always, or more than ever, would not 
count militarily), and would have Prussia and Russia against him, 
the whole business is fishy. Italy is no good either, and 
furthermore he mucked things up for himself there. He ts floored. 
Even the great Karl Schurz, ex-student General Fart,° has confided 
this to Bismarck secretly.%° 

It is nearly 7 o’clock, and I have not had dinner yet. I must go 
home first, so enough for today. 

Your 
F. E.