[London,] 24 May 1872 

My dear Vaillant, 

Serraillier has received a letter from Brussels from some of the 
proscribed persons over there—-which in my view makes it 
necessary that something be done here to avert if at all possible 
any further rumpus amongst the Communards. It is for this 
reason that I have agreed with Serraillier to ask you (and via you 
Arnaud), Cournet and Ranvier to come to my house tomorrow 
evening (Saturday at 8 or 9 o'clock, whichever is more convenient) to 

a feats and gestures - * K. Marx, ‘Resolutions on the Split in the United States’ 
Federation Passed by the General Council of the I. W. A. in Its Sittings of 5th and 
12th March, 1872’.