[London,] 4 May 1871 

Dear Liebknecht, 

Enclosed an article for the Volksstaat.* 

The Antwerp cigar-makers maintain that, at the time of the 
great German cigar-workers’ strike, they had sent a contribution of 
3,000 frs in support. The strike in Antwerp and Brussels is still in 
progress '”” and, if this story of the 3,000 frs is correct, it would 
damn-well be the responsibility of the Germans to pay it back. 
Please, try to find out about it and, depending on the result, write 
something on it briefly in the Volksstaat. 

We have greatly enjoyed Bebel’s speeches and articles here. His 
speech in the debate on Basic Rights was excellent,” and the 
elegant superiority with which he, a worker, poured ridicule 
on the assortment of priests, Junkers and bourgeois, was really 
by far the best thing that has yet happened in the entire Berlin 
spittoon. 

We heard with pleasure that you were going to visit us soon. 
You can, of course, stay both with me and with Marx; we shall 
arrange all that. 

rd 

a F. Engels, ‘Once Again “Herr Vogt’’. 

Jenny and Tussy are in Bordeaux with Lafargue, arrived there 
last Monday.* 

Best regards, 
Your 
F. E.