London, 28 April 1883 

Dear Bernstein, 

(I think we should discard the boring ‘Mr’.) The continuation of 
what follows will contain some correspondence, i. a.-with Americans 
over Most.* 

It is unforgivable that you are not returning via London,*? I had 
quite counted on it. Well, perhaps you’ll come in summer and we'll 
take a swim in the sea together. You can always be sure of a bed at 
my home. 

Mayall, the leading London photographer always to work for 
Marx, has the principle: we po NOT TAKE MONEY FROM EMINENT PEOPLE. SO 
we can’t now press the man for copies (he is extremely muddled), ex- 
cept by a roundabout route. Hence we -have given him an order, 

* Ibid., pp. 9-11. 

claiming it was for a German bookseller, for 1,000 cartes de visite 
(£12 = M240 = 24d. each) and 200 casiner portraits (*/, figure) 4 
£8 = M160 = 80d. each. It is the last and best picture to depict 
Moor at his sprightly Olympian ease, confident of victory. I am of- 
fering them to you, and to Liebknecht and Sorge in New York after 
deducting those we need ourselves. How many do you want? You 
don’t have to sell them all at once. They will be better in any case 
than any made there. 

Yours, 

F.E.