(Manchester, 7 May 1860] 

Dear Moor, 

Heckscher sent the story to the Reform* straight away, but with 
what success I don’t yet know; as usual, having made a great song 
and dance about his influence, he now says he can’t promise it will 
appear, etc. 

Meanwhile Siebel has got it into the Mittelrheinische Zeitung. 

Any news from Berlin? 

Mr Szemere has put me to great expense over the Tokay. The 
wine’s so sweet that no one can drink it, so I’ve sent back the 
whole lot, apart from a bottle or two, and shall, of course, have to 
bear all the expenses, customs duty, etc., etc. He writes most 
civilly, offering me other wines, but charges three times as much 
as Charles’s” wine merchant in Pest. The fellow is trying to make 
huge profits out of his ‘entreprise toute patriotique’. Nous verrons. 

Siebel is ill with some ‘genius’s ailment’ on which, as usual, he 
prides himself. I shall go and see him this evening. 

I haven’t heard a word about my pamphlet“ or seen anything in 
the papers. It’s the conspiration du silence all over again. 

Apropos. Reiff has come up here, or-so he says, on the advice of 
Liebknecht, Lochner, etc.! He wants me to help him with money; is a 
street musician. I’ve told him that in the circumstances I would first 
have to write to you, which didn’t seem to please him.—Said you 
were angry, etc., etc. Que faire?* What do you think of the chap? In 
any case, I can’t do much for him. 

My brother Emil is here and is negotiating with Ermen. I shall 
probably be remaining with Gottfried‘ as clerk with a percentage 
of the profits, in return for a guarantee that I shall become a 
partner in a few years’ time. I’m trying to make the contract as 
onerous as possible for G. so that, when the time comes, he’ll be 
only too glad to let me go. By the end of this week, or at any rate 
in the course of the next, everything will probably have been fixed 

@ See this volume, p. 129. - > Charles Roesgen - © ‘wholly patriotic enterprise’. We 
shall see. - 4 Savoy, Nice and the Rhine - ¢ What should we do? - £ Gottfried Ermen 

up. For the next few weeks, by the way, I shall probably have to 
drudge fittingly, for Monsieur Gottfried intends to make great 
changes and do a lot of reorganising the moment he’s in sole 
charge of the concern. 

Many regards to your wife and the young ladies. 

Your 
F. E.