London, 23 August 1871 

Dear Moor, 

In great haste. Enclosed B/57 68868, London, 27 July 1871, £5. 
Stay there as long as you can; it will do you more good than to 
come here. The girls won’t be coming this week after all.?” 
According to the Pall Mall Lafargue too is at liberty.”* 

Lessner says that the Lassalleans have resolved to sue you if they 
do not receive the money next week!?” 

a 23 August; see also previous letter. 

Frankel is here and was elected a member of the General Counci. 
yesterday, along with Chalain and Bastelica. He was here today 
with Rochat; does not seem to be a high-flyer. 

Allsop was in the Council. yesterday and gave me the sum of 
5 shillings for you for the refugees. He is leaving town once more 
and will be writing to you again. In the crush there was of course 
no chance to speak with the deaf man in more detail. 

Jung’s letter saying that I should launch an appeal to the Yankees 
came yesterday at 7 p.m., ie. too late. It was resolved that you 
should be charged with formulating the appeal”? and despatching 
it by steamer next Saturday.’ If you can’t, I could do something of 
the sort; the enclosed letter proves that it would be worth it. 
Yesterday between £2 and £3 came in altogether! 

The whole meeting” was used once more for the following 
debate: Weston, Hales, Applegarth and another of our English- 
men had been invited by George Potter to a meeting at which 
Dr Englander (!) was also present. Potter produced the informa- 
tion that Sir Edward Watkin had made an agreement with the 
Canadian government according to which the Versailles prisoners 
would be sent to Canada where they would each be given | acre of 
land—presumably Thiers is behind it in order to get rid of them. 
Weston was enthusiastically in favour, il radote de plus en plus* In 
the end Longuet, Theisz and Vaillant moved the next item on the 
agenda— it was quite well done. 

I am overrun from morning till night; can’t even manage to 
read a newspaper, and at this very moment there is someone 
waiting for me downstairs again. To cap it all my brothers are 
due to come too. 

Salut. 

Your 
F. E.