Manchester, 29 March 1868 

Dear Moor, 

I am afraid I shall not finish the article for the Fortnightly*” by 
Tuesday. The damned Schiller Institute business* kept me 
breathless all the week, until I finally got things cleared up 
yesterday. If I had failed—and several stupidities on the part of 
my main adjutant put everything doubtful again—I would have 
been ‘terribly discredited, made ludicrous for the whole of 
Manchester; To BE ‘DONE’ IN BUSINESS, TO GET YOURSELF ‘SOLD’ is naturally 
here the worst thing that can happen to you. Now it is a great 
triumph and gives me the opportunity I wanted to withdraw with 
honour from official participation in the affair; anyway now 
enough people will be pushing themselves forward for it. I am 
doubly annoyed because this business has made it impossible for 
me to complete the article; but for this I would have had to rush 
it, and in this case the quality is very important. 

Schorlemmer has made a very fine discovery: the law of the 
boiling points of the hydrocarbons of the series C,Hon+s ive. for 
three of the four isomeric series; of the 4th, too few have yet been 
described." 

I shall be arriving at your place on Wednesday evening at 9, 
possibly earlier.’ 

Where on earth can the enclosed article come from? And a 
letter of Bismarck’s to cheer you up. 

Best greetings. 

Your 
F. E. 

I can find nothing about Wiffa. But in higid, hiwisc, hida you 
are confusing 2 if not 3 different words.” 

Anglo-Saxon hiwisce, Old Saxon and Old High German hiwiski, 
Old Frisian hiskthe, Old Nordic  hyski, New North Frisian 
hiske = familia. 

a C. Schorlemmer, ‘Researches on the Hydrocarbons of the Series C,H oni9’: 
Proceedings of the Royal Society, No. 94, 1867 and No. 102, 1868. - > See this volume, 
pp. 553-54. 

Higid can be the participle of the Anglo-Saxon hegjan, this verb 
means TO FENCE IN. 

Whether hide, which is still encountered locally today as a 
measure of land, is drawn from this, or is connected with hide 
cutis, Anglo-Saxon hyde, I cannot determine without an Anglo- 
Saxon dictionary.