ENGELS TO MARX 

IN LONDON 

Manchester, 17 November 1865 
Dear Moor, 

Your letter was only passed on to me yesterday evening, and I 
shall be making enquiries as to how it was left lying around for so 
long. 

I hope little Jenny is att ricnt again and at least has got over the 
acute stage of the illness and the danger therewith. I’m sending 
her a case of port, sherry and claret this evening, to restore her 
strength. It gave me a real fright when I read the word 
diphtheria; it is not something to be made light of. 

The letter from the Berliners really took me aback.”! It has 
obviously been written by someone with a lot more to him than 
Wilhelmchen* and his references to the latter do not appear to be 
without a certain irony. Now the letter has certainly not been 
written by a worker, the mere fact that Grimm’s rules of 
orthography are impeccably observed shows that, and I am just a 
mite suspicious as to how genuine the thing is. At any rate, we 
ought to obtain more information about the 3. signatories, 
Wilhelmchen should know them at least, if the business is bona 
fide. It is rather the form of the document that makes me 
suspicious, the content most definitely implies the contrary. But as 
you won’t in any case be going to Berlin to found a new 
organisation there, it will not signify if you write to these people. 
Letter returned encl. 

What do you say to the niccer-rebellion in Jamaica and the 
atrocities perpetrated by the English??? The Telegraph says today: 

* “We should be very sorry if the right was taken away from any British officer to shoot 
or hang all and every British subject found in arms against the British Crown!’ *> 

Your 
F. E.