Manchester, 22 June 1869 

Dear Moor, 

I don’t know whether you have such fine weather there as we 
have here, but daylight has been so exhausted that, on the longest 
day, we had to turn the gas on at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. And 
it is devilish to read or write when you don’t know whether it is 
day or night. 

Tussy is very jolly. This morning the whole family went shopping; 
tomorrow evening they want to go to the theatre. She has read 
right through Hermann und Dorothea, not without difficulty 
because of the idyllic philistines’ twaddle. Now I have given her the 
younger Edda, which contains several nice stories; then she can read 
from the elder one the songs of Sigurd and Gudrun. She also 
plays the piano sedulously. I have also read Danish Kjaémpeviser? with 
her. 

So that is Wilhelm’s entire success: that the male-female line and 
the all-female line of the Lassalleans have united! *” He really has 
achieved something there. Schweitzer will naturally be re-elected — 
in view of the precipitacy with which the business has been 
conducted—and then he will, once again, be the chosen one of 
general suffrage. Wilhelm is also preserving an obstinate silence 
about this event. 

The Urning you sent me is a very curious thing. These are 
extremely unnatural revelations. The paederasts are beginning to 
count themselves, and discover that they are a power in the state. 
Only organisation was lacking, but according to this source it 
apparently already exists in secret. And since they have such 
important men in all the old parties and even in the new ones, 
from Résing to Schweitzer, they cannot fail to triumph. Guerre aux 
cons, paix aux trous-de cul’ will now be the slogan. It is a bit of luck 
that we, personally, are too old to have to fear that, when this 
party wins, we shall have to pay physical tribute to the victors. But 

a by Goethe - > epics - © K. H. Ulrichs, ‘Argonauticus’. Zastrow und die Urninge des 
pietistischen, ultramontanen und freidenkenden Lagers. - 4 War on the cunts, peace to the 
arse-holes 

the younger generation! Incidentally it is only in Germany that a 
fellow like this can possibly come forward, convert this smut into a 
theory, and offer the invitation: introite,* etc. Unfortunately, he has 
not yet got up the courage to acknowledge publicly that he is ‘that 
way, and must still operate coram publico ‘from the front’, if not 
‘going in from the front’ as he once said by mistake. But just wait 
until the new North German Penal Code recognises the droits du 
cul’; then he will operate quite differently. Then things will go 
badly enough for poor frontside people like us, with our childish 
penchant for females. If Schweitzer could be made useful for 
anything, it would be to wheedle out of this peculiar honourable 
gentleman the particulars of the paederasts in high and top places, 
which would certainly not be difficult for him as a brother in 
spirit. 

At the end of the week, Schorlemmer will be going to Germany 
for 4 weeks via Grimsby and Rotterdam. 

The strikes here in the cotton factories have been over since 
this morning, when the Oldhamites went back. So overproduction 
has no restraints any more. 

Close of post. Best greetings. 

Your 
F. E.