Manchester, 7 February 1860 

Dear Moor, 

Received the circular addressed to Collet.* Comes altogether a 
propos, yesterday’s Daily Telegraph having carried two columns 
about Vogt’s shit? and the Brimstone Gang.” If it amounts to no 
more than what’s in the Telegr., then Izzy has been frightened by a 
fart. To ‘parry the thrust’, all one has to do is hold one’s nose. 

Mr Ronge is up here. He hurried along to Siebel, saying he 
wished to be introduced to me!! Furthermore, he asked whether I 
also belonged to the Brimstone Gang—n racr, if it weren’t for 
him, S., and if it weren’t for S., I myself, wouldn’t have heard 
about the nonsense in the Telegy. 

S., who’s an out-and-out charlatan and’ knows it, is dead keen to 
be of service to us in this business. He’s got masses of connections 
and, best of all, is quite above suspicion. The fellow knows that the 
whole robber band, Kinkel and Co., are just as much humbugs as 
he is, and in us he has at last found people who are totally 
impervious to his humbug, inde° an unbounded admiration. 

a K. Marx, ‘Prosecution of the Augsburg Gazette.’ - > (K. Abel,] “The Journalistic 
Auxiliaries of Austria’, The Daily Telegraph, No. 1439, 6 February 1860. See also 
this volume, pp. 74-76. - © hence 

Oughtn’t we to scan the daily press for the circular tomor- 
row?" 

Vale. 
Your 
F. E.