Ramsgate, 3 September 1873 

Dear Moor, 

Received your wife’s letter this morning, according to which 
Jenny* has successfully put it behind her. Our warmest congratu- 
lations. There is always some cause for concern the first time and 
hence a double sense of relief if all goes well. 

a Jenny Longuet 

The Genevans are complete philistines. So everything is to be 
overturned on the possibility that des sections jurassiennes will 
return to the fold! I am convinced that they are already up to 
their tricks with the others and absolutely dying to compromise— 
had we gone there, we might well have found everything settled in 
advance. The confidential report of the General Council can 
hardly be entrusted to such a congress” in extenso. Incidentally, 
the others are also making a rather poor beginning with only 30 
members! °”! 

I had given my agreement to Le Moussu on 2 matters 
unconnected with each other’: 

1. to advance him the £23 for his patent, whatever the 
situation; 

2. if Lafargue were to leave him in the lurch, or back out of his 
own accord, or if there were to be a separation in any other form 
that would not prejudice my relations with Lafargue—then I 
would enter into negotiations with him and Moore? on the same 
basis as they had established with Lafargue previously. It seems to 
follow from your letter that the terms of the separation were such 
that Lafargue cannot reproach me with anything if I take his place 
and go into partnership with Le Moussu. If this is right—and your 
opinion on this will be entirely sufficient for me—then Moore and Le 
Moussu can come and visit me in the evening, when I have to be 
in because of Andrews, and we can talk the matter over. But if he 
has to have the money for the patent immediately, he must let me 
know at once, since I would have to go to London right away to 
see to it. 

My congratulations on your narrow escape.” Unfortunately, such 
fits cannot be produced to order with any certainty. The raspberry 
vinegar, and even more solid bodies, might have got into your 
wind-pipe a hundred times over without provoking the same 
symptoms. 

Have written to Hepner.” 

Would you inform Le Moussu of what I said above, if you 
believe that I can do it with a good conscience vis-a-vis Lafargue? 
It should be made clear, incidentally, that my offer only refers to 
Lafargue’s position in ‘Moore & Le Moussu’. The other affair— 
the big printing works—should be abandoned for the time being, if 
only for commercial reasons. We shall have enough on our hands, 
for the moment at least, with exploiting the patent itself. I shall 
explain all this when I come. 

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Best regards to the whole family from Lizzie and myself. 

I hope that Andrews has also sent you the title, the table of 
contents and the cover*? Put on the cover, in small print at the 
bottom: Prix 2 sh. 

Your 
F. E.