Manchester, 2 November 1864 

Dear Moor, 

The crisis and its innumerable vexations must be my excuse for 
not writing to you earlier. Never in my whole life have I had such 
a glut of Jewish chicanery as now, and you can just imagine how 
much correspondence that entails. 

Later this week, I shall go and see Borchardt to complete the 
business of Lupus’ legacy, which is now about to be concluded. 

My travels’ took me as far as Sonderburg*; I did not go to 
Copenhagen, in part because I had neither the time nor a 
passport, and in part because Bille, the editor of the Dagbladet, 

a Danish name: Sdénderborg. 

had just arrived in Lübeck when I was in Kiel, and so I had no 
contact in Copenhagen at all, never having seen any of the other 
papers anywhere. 

Schleswig is a curious country—the east coast very pretty and 
prosperous, the west coast also prosperous, heath and moors in 
the middle. All the bays extremely beautiful. The people are 
decidedly one of the biggest and heaviest of all the human races 
on Earth, especially the Frisians on the west coast. One only needs 
to travel across the country to be convinced that the main stock of 
the English comes from Schleswig. You know the Dutch Frisians, 
in particular those colossal Frisian women with their delicate white 
and fresh red complexions (which also predominate in Schleswig). 
They are the ancestral types of the northern English, and in 
particular those colossal women, who are also found here in 
England, all are of decidedly Frisian type. There is no doubt in 
my mind that the ‘Jutes’ (Anglo-Saxon eotena cyn), who migrated 
to England with the Angles and Saxons, were Frisians, and that 
the Danish migration to Jutland, as to Schleswig, dates only from 
the 7th or 8th century. The present Jutland dialect is proof 
enough of this. 

These fellows are great fanatics and, for that reason, really took 
my fancy. You must have read something by that extraordinary 
‘Dr K. J. Clement of North Friesland’. The man is typical of the 
whole race. These fellows are in deadly earnest about their 
struggle against the Danes, which is their whole purpose in life, 
and the Schleswig-Holstein theory is not an end but a means for 
them. They regard themselves as a physically and morally superior 
race to the Danes, and indeed they are. Bismarck was really 
kidding himself when he thought he could get the measure of such 
people by his own methods.’ We have held out against the Danes 
for fifteen years and became consolidated on our territory, and 
are we supposed to let these Prussian bureaucrats get us 
down?—that’s what these fellows were saying. 

The situation regarding language and nationality is most 
bizarre. In Flensburg, where the Danes claim that the whole of the 
northern part is Danish, especially by the harbour, all the children, 
who were playing down by the harbour there in droves, spoke Low 
German. On the other hand, north of Flensburg the language of 
the people is Danish—1i.e. the Low Danish dialect, of which I 
hardly understood a word. The peasants in the tavern at 
Sundewitt,?, however, spoke Danish, Low German and High 

* Danish name: Sundeved. 

German by turns, and neither there nor in Sonderburg, where I 
always addressed the people in Danish, was I answered in any 
language but German. At all events, Germanisation has en- 
croached considerably on North Schleswig, and it would be very 
difficult to make it entirely Danish again, certainly more difficult 
than German. I would rather it was more Danish, for one day 
something will surely have to be given up to the Scandinavians 
here, for decency’s sake. 

I have recently been doing some work on the philology and 
archaeology of the Frisians, Angles, Jutes and Scandinavians, and 
here, too, I have come to the conclusion that the Danes are no 
more than a nation of advocates, who will knowingly and brazenly 
le, even in matters of scholarship, if it is in their interest. Mr 
Worsaae on THE Dangs Etc. 1s EncLanp To wit.” By way of contrast, next 
time you come here I will show you a book, which is in the main 
very good, by the lunatic Clement from North Friesland about 
Schleswig and the migration to England in the 6th to 8th 
centuries.” The fellow is certainly knowledgeable, despite his 
eccentricity. But he does appear to be a prodigious drinker. 

To my surprise, the Prussians in Schleswig created a very good 
impression, particularly the Westphalians, who looked like giants 
at the side of the Austrians, but admittedly much more 
ponderous. The whole army went around entirely unshaven, with 
their buttons undone and generally bearing themselves in a most 
unsoldier-like fashion, so that the natty Austrians acted almost like 
Prussians here. Amongst the officers of the Prussian artillery and 
engineers I encountered several very agreeable fellows, who told 
me all kinds of interesting things, but the infantry and cavalry 
maintained a most dignified reticence and enjoyed a thoroughly 
bad reputation with the population. There was a notable lack of 
enthusiasm for Prince Frederick Charles’ conduct of the war, and 
no one at all, not even those who had been decorated, had a good 
word to say about the distribution of rewards. The non- 
commissioned officers behaved well towards the older soldiers, 
and indeed generally when in company; on the other hand, I did 
see one of the Brandenburg sappers drilling recruits in Sonder- 
burg, a real old infamous Prussian. It was, by the way, remarkable 
to observe the different tone that prevailed in the 3rd and 7th 
army corps in this respect. Your March Tribe, as Georg Jung has 

a J. J. A. Worsaae, An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and 
Treland. - > K. J. Clement, Schleswig, das urheimische Land des nicht dénischen Volks der 
Angeln und Frisen und Englands Mutterland, wie es war und ward. 

it, submit to being kicked around and trampled on, whereas with 
the Westphalians (amongst whom there is a very strong admixture 
of Rhinelanders from the right bank) the non-commissioned 
officers mostly associate with their men d%gal a-égal.? 

What do you think of the commercial crisis? I think it is all over, 
i.e. the worst is. It is a pity these things do not come to a proper 
head. 

Can you explain: Riim Hart, klar Kimmang? 

Give my kindest regards to your wife and the girls. 

Your 
F. E.