[Ramsgate,] 31 July 1877 
2 Adelaide Gardens 

Dear Moor, 

Just a couple of lines in great haste enclosing letter from 
W. Liebknecht which might perhaps influence your reply to the 
Zukunft.*' I haven’t yet sent a straight answer, but have written to 
Liebknecht about the oddity of expecting us to entrust our 
manuscripts to totally anonymous persons because a congress has 
conferred a scientific character on them.*’* I further told him that 

I would write articles only in exceptional cases and when I myself 
considered it imperative.* 

Wilhelm himself obviously doesn’t know how things stand— 
otherwise he couldn’t have made such a howler about Wiede. A 
fine way of setting up a scientific journal! Anyhow, it’s a good 
thing there isn’t any Dühringianism. 

I was delighted by the business of the strike in America. The 
way they throw themselves into the movement has no equivalent 
on this side of the ocean. Only twelve years since slavery was 
abolished and already the movement has got to such a pitch! 

Knies” is capital. Dithring, too, concerning whom you have again 
hit the nail on the head. What he ultimately says, in fact,— 
translated from confusion into economics—is that value is 
determined by wages.‘ 

Doubtless one will have to resign oneself to the Russians 
remaining between the Balkans and the Danube until the autumn. 
The Turks have allowed a very large proportion of their regular 
troops to succumb for want of proper provisioning during the 
fighting in Serbia and Montenegro,'”” and Abdul Kerim has done 
his best to finish off the rest. I doubt whether Mehemet Ali has 
more than 50,000 men capable of an offensive; Osman Pasha will 
have some 25,000 and another 25,000 south of the Balkans; that 
would seem to be all, the remainder being untrained militia of no 
use in the field. Provided the Turkish government doesn’t now 
conclude a premature peace, the Russians will not get to 
Constantinople this year, but probably cross the Danube again in 
November and, not having yet made any impression on the 
fortresses which—barring accidents—are therefore likely to con- 
tinue secure throughout this campaign, they can start from the 
beginning again in the spring—if at all. 

The wretched Standard correspondent in Constantinople is, at 
Layard’s behest, disseminating alarmist rumours in order that the 
English fleet may be imposed on the Turks. 

Your 
F. E.