Manchester, 7 March 1870 

Dear Moor, 

Your letter arrived here yesterday* in a very suspicious state 
and, what is even more suspicious, a full hour after time. Since, on 
Sunday, there is only one vost peuivery here, this looks very odd. Is 
the very honourable Mr Bruce taking an interest in our corres- 
pondence? 

When [ read on Saturday afternoon in the ‘Irishman in Paris’ 
the story about the Marseillaise, | knew immediately in which part 
of the world Mr Williams was to be found, but stupidly enough 
could not explain the Christian name.**° The business is very fine, 
and the naive letter, with Rochefort’s naive suggestion that 
O’Donovan Rossa should be asked to contribute to the Marseillaise, 
gives Jenny an excellent opportunity to establish a link with the 
treatment of the prisoners, and to open the eyes of the bons 
hommes” over there. 

Why don’t you publish the General Council’s letter to the 
Genevans‘? The central sections in Geneva, Brussels, etc., read 
these things, but they do not penetrate to the masses unless they 
are published. And they should also be published in German in 
the papers in question. You don't publish anything like enough. 

Please send me the relevant copies of Marseillaise and Inter- 
nationale for a few days. Jennychen’s success has been greeted 
with a general hurrah here, and Mr J. Williams’ health has been 
drunk with a. pur Honours. I am very eager to hear how the matter 
develops. The stupid correspondent of the ‘Irishman in Paris’* 
should try some time to get such things into his friend Ollivier’s 
papers. 

A couple of days ago my bookseller suddenly sent me the 
Senchus Mor, the ancient Irish laws,*' and what’s more, not the 
new edition but the first So, with a lot of pushing, I have 

a 6 March. A reference to Marx’s letter of 5 March 1870. -» simple souls - 
© K, Marx, The General Council to the Federal Council of Romance Switzerland. - 4 See 
this volume, pp. 445, 453. - © An allusion to the anonymous article printed in the 
‘Irishman in Paris’ column of The Irishman, No. 36, 5 March 1870. 

succeeded in that. And such difficulties with a book carrying 
Longmans as the London firm on its title page, and published by 
the government! I haven’t been able to look at the stuff yet, since, 
in the meantime, I have started on various modern things (about 
the 19th century) and must finish them first. 

I have concluded with Meissner on the basis of sharing the 
profits.” 

I have just received a semi-incomprehensible telegram from 
Barmen, undated, from which it can only be seen that my mother 
is seriously ill. I don’t know whether a letter is on its way, or 
whether an earlier telegram got lost.** I didn’t get Liebknecht’s 
sheet* today, either. It is very possible that I shall have to go to 
Germany in a few days, iF so I shall see you on my way there. But I 
hope everything will still go well. 

Your 
F. E.