Manchester, 23 May 1859 

Dear Moor, 

I entirely agree about the manifesto.” What ought we to do 
about printing it? It will probably have to be printed in London; 
make some inquiries about costs and other particulars so that we 
can launch it immediately it’s been written.*” 

The Vélkchen‘ business is very amusing, very satisfactory, and 
may turn out to be extremely useful.* As regards its distribution 
here, the following should be noted: While I could easily find an 
English ‘starioner’, he would never stand a chance of catching even 
a stray subscriber. To get hold of them we must have recourse to 
the FOREIGN BOOKSELLERS here, Dunnill and Palmer, Princess Street, 
and Franz Thimm, Princess Street. Lupus is taking out a 
subscription with Dunnill and Palmer, Gumpert and I with 
Thimm, who is our bookseller. The Hermann is very much on the 
wane here and there is a whole load of back-numbers; Thimm’s 
manager, who doesn’t seem overfond of Kinkel, tells me that the 

a The end of the letter is missing. - > See this volume, p. 437. - © diminutive of Volk 

subscribers get fewer every week. So send Thimm a dozen copies 
of the early numbers, particularly the one dealing with the Kinkel 
affair,” and another half-dozen or so to Dunnill and Palmer; as 
soon as it appears I shall set that chatterbox Heckscher in motion 
and he will start the thing circulating here as sure as 2X2=4. But 
the stuff for Thimm must be sent direct to the Thimm up here; 
the London chap would be perfectly capable of intercepting the 
things. Then, as soon as Thimm gets subscriptions here, the local 
salesmen will perhaps take a greater interest in the matter. 

I shall deal with the battle of Casteggio next Friday; the affair is 
too insignificant to warrant 2 articles and the telegrams are too 
vague to permit of anything worthwhile being said about it.” Your 
old map of Lombardy has stood me in very good stead, the scale 
being approx. 1/160,000, hence quite large. Unfortunately the 
delineation of the ground is very poor. 

Many regards, 

Your 
F. E.