Manchester, 2 September 1864 

Dear Moor, 

I had assumed from your last Jetter that you’d be in the depths 
of the Dutch fens, hence my pertinacious silence. I couldn’t find 
your address in Holland. I sent your wife the watch and chain on 
6 August, in a box, by registered mail, and trust it arrived safely. 

I intend to travel from Hull to Hamburg next Thursday, the 
8th, or Saturday, the 10th September, in order to take a look at 
OUR NEW property in Schleswig and Holstein and shall, provided there 
are no passport difficulties, also go from Libeck to Copenhagen. I 
shall not be returning before the end of September and, if at all 
feasible, shall spend a day in London on the way back. 

The parrnersuir business has at last been settled, and the 
contracts signed,“ so I hope to have 5 years’ peace from that 
direction. 

We have left our house in Tennant Street? and have been 
living for the past fortnight about 500 paces further along, in a 

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4 inanity - > See this volume, p. 549.- © ibid., p. 548. 

somewhat larger house with 2 living-rooms downstairs; thus we 
have bettered ourselves after much the same fashion as you did by 
your last removal. The address is 86 Mornington Street, Stockport 
Road, Manchester. Letters to be addressed to me by name as 
before. 

Jones’s address is 52 Cross Street, Manchester. 

The Danes still believe, or rather fear, that a personal union will 
be established and, since editors Bille, of the Dagbladet, and Ploug, 
of the Faedrelandet, are both deputies and undoubtedly have good 
sources, and, since the present ministers are also good Russians, I 
feel convinced that powerful intrigues towards that end are being 
conducted by Russia. However, Monsieur Bismarck certainly has 
other things in view and, if he is to gain positive advantages, i.e. if 
he is to mediatise Schleswig-Holstein,”’ I think he will need the 
Augustenburg chap? pretty badly. This much is certain, never has 
Prussian dynastic policy involving the partition of Germany along 
the Main been so insolently advocated, and as for the rotten liberal 
gang, they seem to be taking quite kindly to it. Should this be the 
case—and I shall find out easily enough in Germany—the 
Prussian bourgeoisie will be giving us a tremendous lever for the 
next sri-ro. I am sure by the way that Elsner is right, at least about 
the old provinces being intolerably flushed with victory. Indeed, 
I shall take care not to go there. It will be bad enough even on the 
Rhine. — 

To the worthy Gottfried’s intense alarm, 1 told him about 
Monsieur Bonaparte’s ardent desire to join the Holy Alliance‘ on 
the very day the matter became known. The fellow’s bound to 
come to a bad end. To ruminate perpetually about ‘business’ is 
very aging, as I can see from Gottfried, who has much the same 
attitude to trade as B. has to politics, and whose train of thought is 
also similar. As the years go by, one dreams of retirement and, if 
it’s not feasible, one’s health suffers. N’est pas Palmerston qui veut.” 
Ce cher“ Bonaparte is, I should say, very much on THE DECLINE. So 
much the better; once he starts to flag, he’ll soon be done for. 

Best wishes to the girls. But why didn’t you drop me a couple of 
lines to say you were not going to Holland and that your wife was 

ill? Your 
F. E.