Manchester, 10 November 1868 

Dear Moor, 

Many thanks for settling things with Borkheim. From the 
enclosed letter, which he wrote me, you can see what a ‘nincompoop’ 
the man is.””? 

Sarah’s* sickness is taking a very favourable course; it is a simple 
typhoid fever, vulgo gastric fever; Gumpert expects no more 
relapses and, by the end of this week, she should be cured. 
Against the contagion, which Gumpert also does not regard as 
dangerous, disinfection is a help. 

Lizzie was in Lincolnshire, visiting a patriarchal variety of 
AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS Who do well—they have gardens and potato 
land, the right of gleaning, which brings in a lot and, in addition, 
PASSABLE WAGES. Parallel to this, however, the GaNnc system is on the 
increase; she described it literally as you depicted it in your 
book.” These patriarchal rarm Labourers with land are naturally a 
declining remnant, and are already sending their children into the 
canG, while they, for their part, provide the nurseries for the babies 
of the women working on neighbouring canes. 

In Jacob Grimm’s Spanish romances there is one in which 
Conde Claros de Montalban, son of Reinolt (Rinaldo) of the 
Haimon family, has a love affair with the Infanta, Charlemagne’s 
daughter; the count takes her into a thicket in the garden, where 
they lie down?: 

de la cintura en arriba (upwards) muchos abrazos se dan, 
de la cintura en abajo como hombre y mujer se han< 

Old Jacob selected a lot of naive passages like that. 
With many greetings. 

Your 
F. E.