Manchester, 7 May 1869 

Dear Moor, 

Your liver must be raging, since we neither see nor hear 
anything of you. How are things, and when are you coming? And 
is your wife well again? 

No answer from Wilhelm.’ I wrote to him in a_ BUSINESSLIKE 
manner to stop him indulging in any more dodges. If he does not 
reply soon, we shall have to see to it that Eichhoff prints the stuff.” 
He, i.e., W.,° apparently doesn’t give any sign of life either. 

A few numbers of Zukunft by post today, and enclosed the Belgian 

a Wilhelm Liebknecht - > F. Engels, The Peasant War in Germany; see also this 
volume, p. 262. - ¢ Wilhelm Eichhoff 

, 

letter,” returned with thanks. It is curious how, everywhere on the 
Continent, the people, relying on the International, simply launch 
strikes, and apparently have not the faintest intention of filling the 
general war-chest. 

Tomorrow will, I hope, finally be that more lively ‘tomorrow’ 
when you will ‘at last’ get down to letting us have more news of 
ou. 
: In the debate on the trade regulations**’ Wilhelm played a 
quite deplorable role. All the motions came either from Schweitzer 
or from Bebel, and Wilhelm wisely kept his mouth shut, since 
positive knowledge was called for in this case. Schweitzer was also 
a treat when he tried to prove that the ban on Sunday 
work=increased consumption by the worker=wage rise. 

Best greetings. 

324 

Your 
F. E.