Dear Madi: Manchester, 1 November 1867 

What is the matter? Why have I not heard from you at all? Ever 
since your last letter I have been in constant fear that you have the 

4 Paul Lafargue (Engels jocularly calls Lafargue by the name of a wandering 
German physician, which became synonymous with a quack) - > the first volume of 
Capital 

carbuncles again. Have you heard any more from across the 
water? From Kugelmann or Meissner concerning articles on your 
book*? I am getting no news of any kind and, in the 
circumstances, there is damn little I can do. 

Just how far Dizzy? has contrived not merely to pish the Whigs 
but to disorganise the Tories, too, was demonstrated to me the day 
before yesterday in a conversation with two of that ilk. They were 
agreed: 

1. that the Irish Church and thus the Established Church in 
England, too, should fall forthwith, 

2. that the Laws oF primogeniture AND ENTAIL” * are no longer tenable, 

3. that when the Queen‘ dies, a revolution will probably soon 
follow here. 

5 

Your 
F. E.