{Argenteuil,] jeudi,2 10 August 1882 

Dear Frep, 

Next Tuesday Dr Feugier will be letting me know whether I am to 
quit Enghien for good or carry on as I have been doing for another 
day or so. 

Unfortunately I must first——supposing I (and Laura) go from 
here to Switzerland (Vevey or some such place is recommended) — 
have an additional monetary subsidy. For I discovered by chance that 
Jenny is under severe pressure from her Lanpiorp (and it’s no laughing 
matter here) for the rent, and today I had the utmost difficulty in get- 
ting her to accept enough money to settle the business. 

Furthermore, I am hoping that Johnny will go to London with 
Tussy (the only opposition comes from Longuet, who doesn’t care a damn 
whether it’s a respite for Jennychen or good for Johnny), in which 
case I shall have to give Tussy some extra money to take the lad for 
a couple of weeks to the seaside in England. Monsieur Longuet’s 
main objection to letting us have Johnny for six months is that, for 
reasons of health, Johnny ought to go to the seaside in Normandy 
whither he would accordingly be accompanied by Longuet to stay 
with o_o Madame Longuet? at Caen. 

In fact, Johnny is running wild here and has, in France, forgotten 
such rudiments of reading, writing, etc., as he had. He has grown 
naughty out of boredom (i.e. [for want of] occupation) and gives 
Jennychen more trouble than the 3 younger ones.‘ Monsieur Longuet 
does ‘nothing’ for the child, but his ‘love’ consists in not letting him 
out of his sight during the brief intervals when he himself is visible, for 
in Argenteuil he usually spends the morning in bed and leaves for 
Paris again at 5 in the afternoon. 

In view of what lies ahead of Jennychen, *°° it will be absolutely 
impossible for him to restrain young Johnny. Tussy is AN EXCELLENT DIs- 
CIPLINARIAN and will bring him to heel again. So at least we can put 

2 Thursday-° Felicitas Longuet-° Henri, Edgar and Marcel Longuet 

paid to Longuet’s ‘objection’ that Johnny cannot go to England 

(where Tussy would also send him to school) because he must go ‘to 

the seaside’; he is to go ‘to the seaside’, but do so in England. 
Aside from the aforementioned expenses, I shall not, after paying 

the doctor* and buying various necessities, have very much left for 

the trip from here to Switzerland. I hate squeezing you like this, but 

am forced to do so if I am not to come straight back to London. 
Salut. 

Moor 

The announcement in the French, i.e. Parisian, newspapers, start- 
ing with the Temps, that Liebknecht was on his way to Paris, ‘to es- 
tablish contact with the German workers and visit the socialist, Karl 
Marx, who is now living at Argenteuil after his return from Algiers’,” 
this note, I say, and the way it was couched, smacked of the ‘police’ 
and was too indiscreet even for Liebknecht. If he should still find me 
here, I shall tell him exactly what I think of his ‘indiscretion’ (it’s all 
due to his wanting to make himself look important).