Manchester, 8 August 1862 

Dear Moor, 

In giving you an account of my expenditure, I never remotely 
intended to deter you from further ‘squeezing’, as you call it. On 
the contrary, we shall, I think, go on giving each other as much 
mutual aid as we can, it being quite immaterial so far as the cause 
is concerned which of us happens to be the ‘squeezer’ at the 
moment and which the ‘squeezed’, roles that are, after all, 
interchangeable. My only object in drawing up this statement was 
to demonstrate the impossibility of laying my hands on more than 
£10 just at the moment. 

I assume that you promptly requisitioned the £15 in cash from 
Lassalle, or what exactly does ‘by January’* mean? That he doesn’t 
want to fork out till then? Now as regards bills, I for my part can 
perfectly well draw from £40 a £45 or some 260 to 309 talers on 
Lassalle, at 3, preferably 4 months’ date, provided Borkheim will 
cash them. I shall also be able to send you another £10 in cash if I 
keep Borkheim waiting till September for the money I owe him 
for wine. That would make 10 from me, 45 for the bill, 15 
Lassalle, total £70. But it would mean that I was completely 
cleaned out for some little while, not that that would really matter, 
provided it got you out of the mire and enabled little Jenny to go 
to the seasiwe. Since Borkheim is constantly having to disburse 
money on the Continent—and he knows that, come what may, I 
have got to honour the bill if I don’t want my position here to be 
ruined, there’s absolutely no reason why you shouldn’t go and ask 
him whether he’s willing to negotiate the thing for us. You can tell 

* See this volume, p. 399. 

him that just now, when times are bad for cotton, I am 
honour-bound to draw as little money as possible from the firm 
and hence would sooner adopt this method. You have far less 
cause to feel ill at ease with him about the affair than I have, so go 
and see him at once and arrange matters so that I can draw on 
Monsieur le Baron* forthwith. ; 

Lupus arrived on Monday, in the grip of influenza and 
rheumatism, which confined him to bed for a day, the only one he 
spent in London. As soon as he felt a little better, he came straight 
up here. That was why he didn’t come and see you. He is now 
better, but, being in monetibus” likewise on his beam ends, came 
straight to me about the £10. 

You've absolutely got to pull off another financial coup, 
otherwise I cannot see how on earth we’re going to make up for 
the loss of the Tribune. Nor are the other New York papers in any 
kind of a position to take the place of the Tribune so far as you 
are concerned‘; but, should a suitable occasion arise, it would do 
no harm to try, as something might come of it. With 30 sheets, the 
book?!” will raise at most some £70, but how do things stand with 
Brockhaus? Did you discuss the matter at all with Lassalle? And 
how much longer will it take? 

I have again made contact with the Allgemeine Militdy-Zeitung 
and shall see how it goes, though 1 article every 6 weeks is the 
maximum here. Mightn’t you be able, through your mussurus or 
otherwise, to arrange for me to contribute military articles to an 
English paper in London? But all this is marginal stuff and, unless 
we can discover the art of shitting gold, there would hardly seem 
to be any alternative to your extracting something from your 
relations by one means or another. R éfléchis-la-dessus.° 

Shall write to you shortly about Lassalle’s war plans and your 
theory of rent,’ though I must say I’m by no means clear about 
the existence of ‘absolute’ rent—for, after all, you have to prove it 
first. I’ve got frightful piles and can’t go on sitting down any 
longer. 

Regards to the family. 

Your 
F. E.