Eastbourne, °”° 18 June 1895 4 Royal Parade 

Dear Ede, 

Thank you for your letter—there is some improvement but, in accordance 
with the principles of dialectics, the positive and the negative aspects are 
both showing a cumulative tendency. I am stronger, eat more and with a 
better appetite and look very well, or so I am told; thus my general condition 
has improved. On the other hand, the disease as such has also shown a 
cumulative tendency—more tumours and hence more pain and greater 
difficulty in getting to sleep, etc. The thing is taking a course that is normal, 
if more critical and not quite so sluggish as in London. Consequently my 
duly acquired pathological stupidity has tended to grow worse, as has my 
inability to work. Today I have had another particularly bad day but now, at 
5 p.m., my mind is just beginning to grow a little more lucid. 

Louise, Ludwig and their little girl came down on Saturday.* Ludwig has 
to be back on duty at his London hospital on Sunday but will probably return 
here on the Friday or Saturday. 

The Avelings are coming down on Saturday or Sunday and, perhaps, Sam 
Moore also. Unfortunately they will have to provide their own entertainment 
since, subjectively and objectively, I am a bore. 

Love to Gine and the children.” My visitors have all gone out and I have 
been trying to get a little sleep. 

Yours, 
F.E. 

“15 June - ° Bernstein’s wife and her children