Manchester, 28 June 68

Dear Mohr,

You have taken a heavy stone from all our hearts with your yesterday’s letter. The day before yesterday & even yesterday still, everything here in the house was quite depressed, today they are again merrier than ever, & I myself also feel quite differently. The article is finished. You are right, Sam is the man to sign it. I shall tell him so today & at the same time give him the article to look through and annotate for any Germanisms. Let me know immediately whether I can keep it for a few more days, perhaps until Wednesday evening; if not, I can send it off on Monday. The second & concluding article (the first goes up to the end of absolute surplus-value) can then also be finished by the end of this week, since I shall hardly be leaving here before then, so that the two articles will follow one another directly. First of all I shall send the article on the Prussian military nomenclature to the Zukunft.

Salut, ô connétable de Saint Pancrace! Only equip yourself with a worthy suit of armour—a red dressing-gown, a white nightcap, slippers trodden down at the back, white drawers, a long clay pipe & a pot of porter. Lafargue as your Esquire can invent his own uniform. You see, the philistine of St Pancras insists that you should sacrifice yourself for the common weal. And to this years-long, touching devotion, which lets itself be deterred by nothing, are you constantly to oppose the cold negation of the kiss my—? But “that’s the Communists for you”.

Give my warm greetings to Jennychen & tell her that, now she has at any rate had the fever, I should like to have heard her once in a delirium; there will have been more sense & poetry in it than fat Freiligrath will ever develop. Ditto best greetings to your wife & the two Lafargues.

Yours,
F. E.