{[Manchester,] 6 August 1868 

Dear Moor, 

What do I do in this heat? Languish and drink. Today it is 
raining, the air is muggy and saturated with humidity, it is 
therefore doubly horrible, the sweat does not evaporate and you 
are damp all over. 

Last Friday’ I took Lizzie and M. Ellen‘ to Bridlington Quay 
and returned on Monday; tomorrow I shall return there with 
Moore, and I would take my Hoimay and stay the week, but 
Charles“ has gout and is all in, so I must do his work as well as my 
own, and there can be no question of going away. 

Eichhoff’s pamphlet* proves something which I had scarcely 
credited him with—that he is capable of reporting facts objective- 
ly. Of course, you had also made it easy for him.” The thing will 
have a very good effect. Now as regards the transfer to Geneva, it 
reminds me of the Central Authority’s move to Cologne.'’ I 
would think this coup over very thoroughly. First, are the few 
jackasses worth it that you should take this step for their sake and 
hand over responsibility for the whole thing to people who, for all 
their good will, and also probably instinct, just do not have the 
stuff to lead a movement like this? Second, once we start moving 
house, and the holy respect for London, which is still the Medina 
of the emigration, has been replaced by a very doubtful respect 
for Geneva—what is the guarantee that the Proudhonists will not 
succeed in one fine day having the Council transferred, if only as 

a What do you think about this? - > 31 July - © Lydia (Lizzie) and Mary Ellen 
Burns - 4 Charles Roesgen - ¢ W. Eichhoff, Die Internationale Arbeiterassociation... 

a matter of international courtoisie,* to Brussels or Paris? Finally: 
such centres should never be put in places where deportation is 
possible, as long as we have a spot free from this risk. 

The more splendidly things go, the more important it is that 
you should keep them in your hands, and now that the business is 
also beginning to get under way in Germany, I do not believe that 
Becker” has the stuff to manage it. 

I sent Kugelmann the biographical stuff on Friday from York. 
It is a very good thing that something about your book‘ should 
now simultaneously appear in French papers, too. Nota bene, have 
at least 20-30 reprints made of my article in the Fortnightly" (for 
which we will naturally pay, s’il le faut*), they can be used very 
well. Anynow, the conspiracy of silence is now over, and if the 
thing is only blazing a path slowly, it is now doing it surely. 

Grave. is Kies. For the various stages of the Irish peat-ground I 
have no expressions, you will have to ask an East Frisian. 

Borkheim has already reminded me of the ‘date of maturity’. 

Best greetings to the entire sea-bathing company. 

Your 
F. E.