[Ramsgate,] 11 September 1879 
62 Plains of Waterloo 

Dear Fred, 

Letter and enclosure* received with many thanks. 

The Longuet family will be ‘making’ for London, as Lessner 
puts it, on Saturday (next).? So far all has gone well with 
Jennychen, although she still has a bit of asthma, but she 
proposes—obstinately, @ la Lupus‘—to combine feeding her child ¢ 
with teaching.'”” 

Yesterday, to my intense surprise, Meyer suddenly materialised 
in front of me on the sands. To my relief, he immediately 
explained that he had taken lodgings for the day in Margate 
whither he would be returning in a few hours’ time, and that all 
he wanted was to inquire about ‘madame’s’! health, etc. I did the 
honours of the place for a while and then handed him over to 
Longuet so that he might speed him on his way. He—Meyer—is 
going to Edinburgh for the Trades Union Congress.*? I’m glad this 
‘crisis’ was so short-lived. The good fellow’s tendency towards 
Ramsgate has been irresistible. He told Longuet, by the by, that 
his liver had got much worse so that he could no longer ‘take’ the 
accustomed amount of ‘spirits’ without their going to his head. An 
attempt, no doubt, to gloss over his recent accments at Maitland 
Park, etc. 

The weather here is partly good and partly bad, the latter 
having a tendency to predominate. 

Your 
Moor