Manchester, 17 May 1870 

Dear Moor, 

Liebknecht will hardly send you my letter, since it is just the 
opposite of what Wilhelm says it is. I took special care not to use 
any insulting expression, but the whole letter naturally centres on 
the bitter ract that Wilhelm writes under my signature on subjects 
about which he knows nothing (as now admitted). And this must 
of course ‘insult him’. 

Even now it is incomprehensible how he could publish 
Nechayev’s filthy letter,°° which consists of a series of curses, and 
nothing else but the very stupidest Russian Herzenite platitudes. 
Something like this can only be explained by his enormous 
indolence, which makes him struggle as hard as he can to fill up 
his paper without working himself. 

To bring your ‘condition’ to an end, the best thing for you 
would be to come in the course of this week, and with Tussy. A 
change of air has always been good for you, and we shall see to it 
that you get better exercise here than there. Then, if things are 
bad, you can also consult Gumpert. But bring Tussy with you. 
Lizzie has already baked currant Breap against her arrival, and the 
whole house has been in jubilo since I announced I would ask you 
to bring her with you. If you can come tomorrow, tant mieux?; just 
telegraph, no more notice is needed to have you rooms ready. 
Otherwise on Thursday.© It will do both of us good to march 
through the fields, and to laugh about the assorted humbuggery 
that has been abroad since I was last in London.” Lizzie has 
promised to go to bed unhesitatingly with Tussy at 11 o'clock 
every night—Sunpays ALways EXCEPTED—so that this point will make 
no trouble either. And, finally, I feel that my 1857 Ruidesheimer is 
now just at the stage when it should be drunk, and for this I need 
your help. 

Thus, either a telegram tomorrow and ‘han selv’* 

—not with 

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22,000 men as ‘han selv’ said, but still with Tussy—or then the day 
after tomorrow. 
Best greetings. 

Your 

F. E. 

Bracke queried me about publication of the letter,* and set a 
term for my prohibition, which I allowed to pass, since I attached 
no importance to it.