Manchester, 3 August 1859
7 Southgate

Dear Moor,

Herewith the beginning of the article about your book.” Take a
good look at it and, if you don’t like it in toto, tear it up and let me
have your opinion. Through lack of practice I have grown so
unused to this sort of writing that your wife will be greatly tickled
by my awkwardness. If you can knock it into shape, do so. A few
convincing examples of the materialistic viewpoint would not come
amiss, in place of my indifferent reference to the February
revolution.‘

As soon as I’ve done with this thing, I shall set to work on
‘Infantry’, which will, however, demand a good deal of time and

a an article for The New American Cyclopaedia - > F. Engels, ‘K. Marx. A Contribution
to the Critique of Political Economy’. - < Engels means the 1848 revolution in France and
subsequent revolutionary events in other European countries.

trouble, despite Rustow, who must, of course, be treated with
some reserve.*

Can you shed any further light on the particulars contained in
Crawshay’s letter in The Free Press of 27 July regarding the
Russian document?” Surely the ‘German’ isn’t Mr Bucher? And in
which German paper is the thing supposed to have appeared? *”

When you saw Blind, did you speak to him about the Vogt
affair? **' N’y avait-il rien a faire?

The gentle Heinrich is acquitting himself well in his new role.
Gloomy as ever, but all the lazier for that, redeeming the world by
his courageous and intelligent GRUMBLING.

Lupus has had another adventure, this time with a parson who
swapped travelling bags with him. The deadly earnestness of the
affair was, however, alleviated by the fact that the bag that had
been left behind contained the said parson’s MAIDEN SERMON which he
was due to rattle off the following day. This lent the thing certain
humorous extérieurs,, otherwise Lupus was again on the point of
exclaiming: *“There are so many rogues in this country, and not
of the working class, but of the middle class.’ *

Your
F. E.