Eastbourne, 25 August 1879 
53 Grand Parade 

Dear Moor, 

I hope you got my letter” sent to the Hétel de l'Europe, St 

Hélier, together with an enclosure from Liebknecht to me and a 
letter (returned) from Hirsch to you. 

In the meantime Hirsch has been arrested in Paris and after two 
days in detention he was compelled to leave the country. He is in 
London, staying with Lessner."” Yesterday I got from him a whole 
parcel of correspondence to do with the newspaper affair*”’; very 
interesting. In my view he has acted quite correctly. (He knew my 

* See p. XXVIII of the Preface. - > See previous letter. 

address, as I had sent him a few excerpts, omitting anything 
offensive, from the letter of Liebknecht’s I passed on to you.)*” 

I've just received 1. a letter from Hochberg in Scheveningen 
and 2. one from Bebel,” the purpose of both being to induce us 
to contribute. There’s no hurry about a reply as Vollmar, the 
editor taken on in place of Hirsch, won’t be out of jug for another 
three weeks! A really excellent prelude, this. 

I'd send you the whole bag of tricks if I was sure of your 
address. According to your wife it is 62 Plains of Waterloo, while 
Laura maintains it’s 71. As soon as I know for certain where you 
are, I'll send you the lot. What an unholy muddle these people 
have again got themselves into. Liebknecht, Bebel, Viereck, 
Hochberg, Schramm, Bernstein, they all of them write something 
different and there’s nothing but confusion and contradiction. So 
all we can do is wait, and at least there’ll be no need for us to be 
disturbed by this business during our holiday. 

I wrote at once to Hirsch” and told him I’d be back in London 
next Thursday.* 

You will in the meantime have heard from the Lafargues that 
they have been here. Unfortunately the weather wasn’t up to 
much. 

How’s Jenny getting on? As well as could be expected, according 
to the last news I got from your wife. I hope this is still the case. 
Give her my love and congratulate her on her strapping boy.” Your 
refound ability to sleep will, I trust, continue, thereby removing 
the chief obstacle that prevents you feeling really fit. Let’s hope 
the Ramsgate weather will suit your wife too. Jollymeier is much 
better, but the changeable weather is a sharp reminder to him that 
something is still slightly amiss between muscles and joints. Pumps 
iS ALL RIGHT; aS usual sea-bathing is doing me a power of good; I 
think I’m getting properly fat. 

If you don’t write tomorrow, then better [write] to London. The 
postal facilities here are antediluvian; a letter posted on Wednes- 
day would not arrive until after our departure. 

Best wishes to all of you, and see to it that Jenny doesn’t take it 
upon herself to return home too soon. How long are you staying 
there? 

Your 
F. E. 

4 28 August - > new-born son, Edgar Longuet