[Manchester,] 1 May 1870 

Dear Moor, 

Poor Schapper! The toll amongst our old comrades is getting 
very high.“ Weerth, Weydemeyer, Lupus, Schapper—but, all the 
same, a la guerre comme 4 la guerre’ Couldn’t you get me a 
photograph of him? Or, if possible, two, you know the Solingen 
people also want one. 

Thanks for the papers. Everything requested goes back tomor- 
row. I would have sent Egalité and Solidarité long ago, but I 
thought the General Council would have received several copies. In 
the Spanish things, which certainly still betray a rather Spanish 
standpoint, you can see how Bakunin’s phraseology shines 
through. 

4 See this volume, pp. 497-98. - > Johann Philipp Becker - ¢ ‘Zur Geschichte der 
Internationalen Arbeiterassociation’, Der Vorbote, No. 4, April 1870. - 4 Carl 
Schorlemmer - ¢ See the previous letter. - f war is war 

I saw Gumpert yesterday. When he asked after you, and I told 
him your liver complaints were flaring up again, he blew up 
without waiting for anything further: Why doesn’t he go to Karlsbad? 
There you have the answer.’ He thinks it would be best early in 
the summer, or only towards autumn, since it is very full there in 
July-August, and horribly hot. The Crown Prince of Prussia” is 
there at the moment, wouldn’t you like to keep him company? He 
is an ‘edicated’* man. 

The resolution on Bee-Hive will please Sam Moore greatly; he 
has taken Bee-Hive up to now, and been very annoyed at the lousy 
sheet. I shall tell him he should take Reynolds’s, or do you know 
something better? Does the Democratic News still exist? 

Enclosed, the latest from Wilhelm.. He very much favours 
Prussia being the only serious opponent of the revolution in 
Germany, but is very much against it being a serious opponent.*” 
Pauvre hére!' 

Lizzie, for whom I immediately made a quick translation of the 3 
Williams,’ is absolutely enthusiastic about them, and thanks Mr 
Williams warmly. 

Best greetings. 

Your 
F. E. 

For some time now your letters have been arriving in an 
unobjectionable condition. At least they have become more 
careful. 

Steps have presumably been taken for a decent obituary on 
Schapper in the press? I don’t know whether Eccarius is the man 
to do justice to this best type of old conspirator.