Eastbourne, 30 August 1887 

Dear Bebel, 

I am tremendously glad that you are so willing to fall in with my little 
plan.? I shall expect to see you in London in the early part of October 
and only regret that you cannot come straight away and spend a week 
here in the bracing sea air. My house still being at sixes and sevens, J have 
had to stay here another week but we shall be going home on Friday, 2 
September.!98 

Everything else I shall leave until we meet but, since you are going to 
Hamburg, just one more word, J have been corresponding with Wedde 
about a plan they have been hatching there. Unfortunately, however, I 
could not comply with his wishes since the plan—at any rate so far as I 
could judge from what Wedde told me—had been worked out in total 
ignorance of the law in this country and, more especially, of procedure 
in civil cases.15” Might I now ask you, when in Hamburg, to get Wedde 
to explain the whole plan in detail to you again so that we can discuss it 

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exhaustively over here, for if the thing is at all feasible, I would gladly do 
all I could, both for the sake of the cause and to oblige Wedde. If the worst 
comes to the worst and nothing can be done, I hope to convince you that 
such is really the case, and even this would mean quite a lot to me. 

So in about 3 or 4 weeks’ time I hope to hear when you will be arriv- 
ing. In the meantime please remember me most kindly to your wife and 
daughter.* With warmest regards, 

Your 
FE. E.