[London,] 5 December 1873 

Dear Moor, 

I would have written to you yesterday as agreed, but I had the 
pleasure of a visit from your esteemed associé, Mr Le Moussu, from 3 
to 6 p.m., who honoured me with a list of his complaints. Have no 
fear, I do not intend to take my revenge by repeating the entire 
rigmarole.’'? I have urged them both to keep the peace (Moore* a 
week ago, Le Moussu yesterday) and pointed out that they were 
now married and would simply have to get along with each other. 
They are two of the oddest fellows one could hope to find, each 
with a boundless idea of himself and his achievements, but each in 
his own speciality, and since their specialities are different, each 
criticises the other to perfection. I gave Moore £5 last week and 
another £5 to Le Moussu yesterday, reminding him of his duty to 
take no more than half for himself. He found this somewhat 
disagreeable, but since Moore did not come but sent him instead, it 
was my duty to do so after all that had taken place. Le Moussu 
then said that £10 were still owing on the patent and that would 
exhaust the £160. I can give them another £5 next week, if you 
authorise me to do so, in the event that no money comes in; but I 
shall categorically demand that Moore should get Longuet to cash 
it, since there have been enough remittances from October which, 
when cashed, should keep the machine going. If you could write a 
brief note to Moore along the same lines, it would be of help. And 
if they pester you with letters, just write and say that they simply 
must get along together until your return. That would do very 
nicely since all the crievances are by no means as pressing as they 
make out. 

Have sent the Alliance report’ to Gumpert. What does he say 
about your head? I hope you have got rid of your cold. 

I am now in a position to pay the £100 due at Christmas. 
Should I give it all to your wife, or just part and the rest to you on 
your return? And also, since you are staying 3 weeks, you will 
need more money for there; IF so, say HOW MUCH, RECKONING LIBERALLY. 

a George Moore - > K. Marx and F. Engels, The Alliance of Socialist Democracy and the 
International Working Men’s Association. 

I had commissioned Aston over a fortnight ago to sell some 
shares but there are no auyers for this special sort. If I manage to 
get rid of them (and I shall be seeing him tomorrow), your debts 
can be settled without delay, otherwise we shall have to wait until 
the beginning of February, when I have prospects of further 
money. 

For your amusement I am sending you a pamphlet on banks,’ 
belonging to Utin. It is by Geffcken, a Strasbourg professor. What 
clever-clever people they are! And they only quote members of 
their own lousy gang, authorities like Augspurg (who has ever 
heard of the Jew?) and the great Wagner of whom it is said: 

‘It the Tosafoth Yom Tobh no longer valid? 
What is valid? Murder! Murder!’ 744 

Utin has left a whole pile of such pamphlets here, it’s fantastic 
stuff, serves Him Right if he relies on his bookseller to make the 
choice. Judging them just by the titles,°/, of them are only fit for 
the W.C., and significantly, not a single one of them has had its 
pages cut. 

More soon on the French translation.“ Up to now I find that 
what you have revised is indeed better than the German, but 
neither French nor German has anything to do with that. Best of 
all is the note on Mill,” quant au style.” 

Enclosed an excerpt on the way in which mechanical energy is 
transformed into heat in the human body. Busch is one of the 
leading contemporary surgeons. The phenomenon described here 
also explains the claim made by both sides at the start of the war‘ 
that—in violation of military convention—the enemy was using 
dumdum bullets. Busch’s cool account certainly puts one in mind 
of the old warning: do not play with firearms. A nice business 
when your own brain smashes open your skull.” 

Best regards to Tussy. 

Your 
F. E.