Manchester, 16 November 1864 

Dear Moor, 

Glad that the carbuncle is getting better. Let us hope it is the 
last. But do take arsenic. 

Acknowledgement from the charming private secretary‘ grate- 
fully received. 

a but one has to grin and bear it - > The Manchester Guardian (see this volume, 
p. 21) - © Laura Marx (a reference to Marx’s receipt of money in respect of Wolff's 
legacy; see this volume, p. 20) 

A few lines for Schweitzer enclosed.*° It is a very good thing 
that we shall again be getting a voice in the press; also very good 
that Liebknecht is going to be co-editor (as long as he is under no 
illusions); that does at least provide some safeguard. Meanwhile, 
we shall do better if we conceal our enthusiasm, as 1. Liebknecht 
is no diplomat, and one cannot rely too much on his ciairvoyance, 
2. the countess* will, above all, be trying to swamp the paper from 
beginning to end with a deliberate ‘apotheosis’,” and 3. we really 
must find out first who else has been approached. Perhaps you are 
better informed than I am, but in the letters from Liebknecht you 
sent me there is no mention of the paper nor of this man 
Schweitzer, so I am very much in the dark. For that reason, I have 
asked for some clarification about the company we shall be seen to 
be keeping. We might after all find ourselves cheek by jowl with 
Mr Karl Grün or some such scum. 

And what a dreadful title: Der Socialdemokrat! Why do these 
fellows not simply call it the Proletarier? 

Enclosed papers returned with thanks. Why haven’t you sent the 
Solingen letter‘ you promised? 

Amid the nonsense written by Emma Herwegh,’ I notice there is 
a further attempt to turn Lassalle into a demi-god, as follows: only 
his mighty spirit kept him alive for so long, anyone else would 
have given up the ghost 2 hours after being wounded—but you 
ask Allen some time about the way peritonitis develops following a 
wound, and he will tell you inflammation hardly sets in at all 
within 2 hours, and is scarcely ever fatal in less than 24 hours, and 
usually not until much later. These people are really given to 
deification. 

Schaaffhausen in Bonn has given a pretty lecture on man and 
apes, pointing out that Asiatic anthropoids have rounded heads, 
like the human beings there, but in Africa both are long-headed, 
and commenting that, with the present state of knowledge, this is 
the strongest argument against the unity of the human race. 
Someone ought to try saying that at a gathering of naturalists in 
England! 

It is splendid how Miller and the Rev. Cappell have made fools 
of that gang Kinkel, Juch & Co. even from the gallows. It is a long 
time since I have come across anything quite so absurd as the 
conduct of these fellows. How fortunate Gottfried * is in the people 
whose cases he takes up! First MacDonald, then Müller. And then 

a Sophie von Hatzfeldt - > of Lassalle - © See this volume, pp. 15, 20. - 4 ibid., 
p. 12. - © Gottfried Kinkel 

the way these gentlemen threw their weight around was the 
immediate cause of Koehl cutting that other lad’s throat in the 
Thames marshes.” Just you wait and see what a mass of mare's NESTS 
they unearth concerning that affair, too. 

Kindest regards to the family. 

Your 
F. E.