London, 13 January 1882 

Dear Moor, 

First, I enclose £ 20 in 4 bank-notes 4 5 GK 53969, 70, 71, 72. 
London, 7 October 1881. I have in addition given Lenchen £ 10 so 

* Eleanor Marx -° See this volume, p. 167.-° exhibit 

that she can pay the rates and still have something in hand. Next 
week, larger amounts will become available and then, after your re- 
turn, we shall be able to make further plans. 

I’m very glad that you should feel strong enough to be able to 
travel alone in future. 

I skimmed through part of the Schramm-Bürkliade* and was 
greatly tickled by it. Even before 1842, Cieszkowski had already writ- 
ten a book on natural philosophy (botany) and, if I am not mis- 
taken, also contributed to the Deutsche, if not actually the Hallische 
Jahr biicher.« 

Our Parisian friends have reaped what they had sown. What we 
had both of us told them would happen has actually come to pass. 
They have, by their impatience, ruined what was a first-rate position 
which, if they were to have made the most of it, called precisely for 
discretion and the ability to wait and see. For Malon and Brousse had 
set a trap for them in true old Alliance style? — calumny in the form 
of mere hints, no open naming of names, and supplemented on the sly 
by word of mouth; they went straight into it like so many schoolboys 
(Lafargue in the van), inasmuch as they counterattacked by name and 
were then dubbed disturbers of the peace. Moreover, their argument 
is so utterly puerile; as soon as one reads their opponents’ retort, this 
leaps to the eye. Thus Guesde suppresses important qualificative pas- 
sages of Joffrin’s because they don’t suit his book, and fails to mention 
the fact that, despite his opposition, the Comité national ?°° declared 
Joffrin’s programme to be more radical than the programme minimum,?*' 
thus giving Joffrin the party’s blessing. A fact which he, of course, 
triumphantly parades before Guesde.* Then Lafargue words his ar- 
ticles in such a way as to enable Malon to say in reply: ‘But have we 
ever maintained that the struggles of the medieval communiers< 
against the feudal aristocracy were anything but class struggles — 
and do you, Mr Lafargue, contest this?” — And now we get jeremiad 
after jeremiad from Paris, saying that they have been hopelessly de- 
feated and, at the next meeting of the Comité national, would even 
be set upon physically, and Guesde is as despairing as he was uppish 4 
weeks ago, and can see no salvation in anything short of secession by 

@ See this volume, p. 177.-” A. von Cieszkowski, Prolegomena zur Historiosophie, Berlin, 
1838.-° Deutsche Jahrbiicher für Wissenschaft und Kunst and Hallische Jahrbiicher fir 
deuische Wissenschaft und Kunst-4 J. Joffrin, ‘A M. Jules Guesde, rédacteur de PE galité, 
Le Prolétaire, No. 171, 7 January 1882.-° commoners 

the minority. And now, finding to their astonishment that they are 
having to lie on the bed they have made,— now they come to the 
laudable conclusion that they must eschew all personalities! 

I am sending you an old Kélnische Zeitung which, however, contains 
a very interesting article on Russia.?5? 

Incidentally, the factum (anti-Guesde) in the Prolétaire, written by 
Malon and Brousse and signed by Joffrin, is a splendid example of 
Bakuninist polemics and very much in the style of the ‘Sonvillier cir- 
cular’,?53 but ruder. 

So the ukase has been issued re the reduction of vykup* pay- 
ments. 2°* Having regard to the colossal nedoimki,> the paltry per 
cent or two will, no doubt, make a great deal of difference! But every 
million it doesn’t get makes a difference to the Russian Treasury. 

Bismarck, by the way, has had better luck than might have been 
expected: the Reichstag has endorsed his pilgrimage to Canossa by 
a ?/s majority.2°° But that would seem to be about the only thing 
upon which this Reichstag is able to agree. A fine majority: feudalists, 
ultramontanes, particularists, Poles, Danes, Alsatians, a few men of 
Progress, 75° demoscratchers and socialists! 

Ad vocem pilgrimages, this morning I met Furnivall wearing a blue 
ulster, belted at the waist, and a broad-brimmed hat—he looked 
exactly like a pilgrim going to the Holy Land on a quest for St Antho- 
ny’s beard. 

Kindest regards to Tussy. 

Your 
F. E.