Manchester, 22 May 1868 

Dear Moor, 

Schorlemmer had told me about one carbuncle, but two a 
tempo,’ and in addition in that place where, it is true, everything 
exists in pairs, c'est vraiment trop. I hope they have gone, and that 
the arsenic will hold back further ones. 

I shall send you the money for the bill. 

Have you heard anything from Meissner? If not, the time would 
have come to ask how sales have been going; on this point he owes 
you an accounting after the Easter Fair as associé in the business. 
Then you could also refer to the advertisement asked for by 
Meissner, the man is still waiting for a reply from me. 

The Fortnightly article'’ will thus be written as though by an 
Englishman—that is how I understand you. Incidentally, I still 
cannot get past the beginning. It is damned difficult to make clear 
the dialectical method to the English who read the reviews, and I 
surely cannot approach the crowd with the equations C—M—C, 
etc. 

Did my last letter give you the data you need?‘ If not, formulate 
your questions and I shall see what can be done. 

Schorlemmer says that you spoke of coming here soon, which 
would be very desirable. The change of air will do you more good 
than anything else. This week and the beginning of next our 
house is in a revolution because of CLEANING AND WHITEWASHING, but if 
you can come at the end of next week, that would be very nice; 
you know that in the Whit week I always have plenty of time to 
spare. Don’t forget that you promised to bring Tussy with you. 

Eichhoff has finally terminated his lectures on crises.” As was to 
be expected, the mortgage crisis in Berlin was the core and finale 
of the whole thing. But the poor devil appears finally to have 
bored even the reporter of the Zukunft so much that he only 
reported on it quite briefly and incomprehensibly.‘ 

a at atime - > that is really too much - © See this volume, pp. 32-34. - 4 Die Zukunft, 
No. 174, 15 May 1868 (morning edition). Engels refers to the report on the last of 
Eichhoff’s series of lectures, ‘Die Ursachen der Handelsstockungen der Gegenwart’, 
delivered in Alt-K6lln, Berlin. 

Liebknecht has this time committed great folly. First he has 
completely identified himself with the South German federalists, 
ultramontanes, etc., by signing their protest,” and always votes 
with them, and in addition has so lost all fruitfulness in his 
speechifying that the impertinent Lasker could tell him—and 
rightly so—that he was making the same speech once again which 
he had delivered for weeks past in all popular meetings. The 
cunning Schweitzer, who confines himself simply to workers’ 
representation, has quite overshadowed him. 

The rag,’ too, as you will have seen, is achieving the impossible: 
it is getting even more stupid. 

Enclosed Borkheim returned. 

Your 
F. E.