Eastbourne,*” 26 August 1879 
Dear Moor, - 

Have at last got your letter* and, with it, your exact address 
which I needed if I was to send you all the rubbish ad vocem? 
party organ.*” Since, for Hirsch’s sake, I couldn’t put off replying 
to Héchberg, I wrote him the enclosed note,° which is unlikely to 
gratify him. 

As you will see from Bebel’s letter it contains exactly the same 
arguments as Liebknecht used in his last letter.*’ From this it may 
be deduced that Liebknecht has not shown him my last letter 
although expressly instructed by me to do so. I now intend, as soon 
as you have sent the stuff back to London, 1. to instruct Bebel to 
make sure that letter is shown to him, so that he may see that all 
this palaver has already been answered, 2. to set out side by side 
for his benefit all the contradictions contained in the various 
letters written to C. Hirsch, so that he may see what a beastly mess 
they've gone and made of things again with their free and easy 
ways. If this is put to him properly, Bebel is, I think, just the man 
to take advantage of it. I shall, of course, first submit the letter to 
you for approval, likewise to Hirsch, cujus res agitur$ 

We were all very glad to hear that Jenny is doing well. I 
altogether agree that, if at all possible, she should go on feeding 
the child herself,“ give up the School!” and thus at last rid 
herself of the sorHer with Nurses and servants, the root of that 
trouble being after all her constant and enforced absence from 
home. As for you and your wife, you must stay at the seaside for 
just as long as you possibly can. You both have a lot of leeway to 
make up and ought not to come back until your head and her 
digestive organs have again condescended to function pretty well 
normally. It’s not as though there’s any hurry now and, besides, 
the weather is gradually becoming, if not brilliant and settled, at 
any rate more changeable in a nicer way than of late. It seems 
much the same where you are as it is here. Jollymeier would be ait 
right if he could have a week of constant sunshine. 

I hope, when I again see Tussy, to find her in an improved state 

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of health as a result of sea bathing. If you’d only written and told 
us, she could have come over here on Saturday and gone on 
bathing until the day after tomorrow! In the event, it wasn’t till 
Sunday morning that I learned from the Lafargues that you were 
in Ramsgate and not where she was at all. 

By the way, my three weeks at the seaside have nothing like 
satisfied me, I’m chewing over all manner of plans for the time 
when Jollymeier, whom London will probably suit better than the 
sea, is once again fit to travel. Do you think it would be a good 
idea if, in about 14 to 18 days’ time and weather PERMITTING, we 
three were to shake off the Eternal-Feminine? for once and go 
and play at being bachelors somewhere or other for a week or two? 

Warmest regards from all of us to all of you. 

Your 
F. E.