Manchester, 3 March 1865 

Dear Moor, 

You must excuse me for neglecting my correspondence this 
week. Borkheim was here and took up a lot of my time; he left 
this evening; then there is corron-rpanic following Sherman’s 
advance,’ with endless letter-writing and vain attempts to dispose 
of our stocx. I think Richmond will be abandoned within a 
fortnight, and, unless by some miracle Lee manages to get a fresh 
respite of 2-3 months, the final, decisive battle will be fought 
within 4 weeks.*° 

I must go home now and write to Meissner and Siebel, who is 
putting himself to a lot of trouble—he says he has sent you the 
statement.* I am glad the thing is finally published; still nothing in 
the damned Social-Demokrat of 1 March—presumably, they tried 
to go back on it? It’s a load off my mind that we have at last 
made the break with that gang. So, now we have the grand 
concluding article on Bismarck” which was supposed to patch 
everything up. O, jerum, jerum, jerum!° 

Your 
F. E. 

a K. Marx and F. Engels, ‘To the Editor of the Social-Demokrat’. - » A reference to 
the fifth article of the series ‘Das Ministerium Bismarck’, Der Social-Demokrat, 
No. 28, 1 March 1865. - ¢ O, jerum, jerum, jerum! O quae mutatio rerum! (Oh, dear 
me, dear me, dear me. A crazy world. Lord, hear me!)— part of the refrain from a 
student song attributed to HOfling. 

a 

I have in my hurry not managed to find any decent port, but sent 
claret yesterday. Will keep looking for some port.