Brighton, 2 March 1877 
42 Kings Road 

Dear Moor, 

I have written to Liebknecht'’’ and asked him to send the 
proof-sheets to me here until further notice; I usually get them by 
Monday at the latest, but have had none this week and am afraid 
that, as usual, something’s been overlooked.'’”’ Would you be so 
good as to go to my house and see if any proofs have arrived 
there, and forward them to me? Mrs Leeson will show you what 
parcels of newspapers, etc., have arrived and you'll easily be able 
to pick them out; she can likewise give you NEWSPAPER WRAPPERS, €tC., 
in which to pack the stuff. Otherwise the fellows are quite capable 

of publishing under my name the balderdash they have set up in 
type. 

In some respects I’m glad that Lina* and Pumps aren’t coming 
until the middle of the month. In the first place, we shall then be 
home again, as we are thinking of coming back a week on 
Tuesday’; secondly, it would give me time to send Lina, in 
addition to the £15 I sent her in haste (all I happened to have at 
the time), another £5 against any eventuality, and again make it 
clear to her (not altogether unnecessarily, perhaps) that she should 
have an eye to comfortable rather than cheap travel, since all the 
money I have sent hitherto is, of course, intended only for the 
journey here. 

We’ve had glorious weather here, but today it’s misty and damp 
with occasional rain. How much the climate down here differs 
from that in London is apparent from the news item in this 
morning’s paper which says that there was an inch and a half of 
ice on the water in the parks, whereas here the effect of the slight 
nocturnal frost had already been dissipated by the sun by ten 
o’clock. For a couple of weeks at the seaside in winter, Brighton is 
indeed ‘a fine place’, which is why the more refined what-d’ye-call- 
"ems pullulate here. But it’s a disgrace to London that, after the 
aquarium here has attained truly scientific rank by its achieve- 
ments in the breeding of fish and amphibia, anyone could be 
presumptious enough to evoke its caricature in Westminster— 
MUSIC HALL with piscine accompaniment—and with such purrine into 
the bargain! 

Best wishes, 

Your 
F.E.