AT LE PERREUX 
London, 9 September 1889 

My dear Laura, 

Today I have the pleasant task of remitting you cheque for £14.6.8, 
one-third share of Meissner’s Remittance of £43,—the account is to 
follow. A fourth edition of Vol. I**% is impending, maybe before New 
Year we shall begin printing it. 

Tussy was here yesterday with Liebknecht, his son and daughter 
Gertrud, Singer, Bernstein, Fischer, etc. etc. She is still over head and ears 
in the strike.? The Lord Mayor’s, Cardinal Manning’s and Bishop of 
London’s‘ proposals were ridiculously in favour of the Dock Companies 
and had never a chance of acceptance. This is the busiest time; from 
Christmas to April nearly no work is done at the docks, so that the real 
purport of delaying the advance to January would have been to delay it 
tll April. 

You will have Liebknecht in Paris in about a week, that is if you are 
there still. And also his wife and one or two more of the family. 

Domela‘ and his Dutchmen seem to stick to their new line. Another 
proof that the little nations can play but a secondary part in Socialist 
development, while they expect to be allowed to lead. The Belgians will 
never give up the idea that their central situation and neutrality give 
them the manifest destiny of being the central seat of the future 
International. The Swiss are and always were philistines and petits bour- 
geois, the Danes had become the same and it remains to be seen whether 
Trier, Petersen and Co. can move them on out of this their present stag- 
nation. And now the Dutch begin the same way. None of them can 
forget and will forget that at Paris the Germans and French led the way, 
and that they were not allowed to occupy the Congress with their petti- 
fogging troubles. Never mind, there is a greater hope now of French, 
Germans and English pulling together, and if the little babies get 
obstreperous, nous en ferons cadeaux aux possibilistes.© 

@ of Capital —» Henry Aaron Isaacs — * John Lubbock — 4 Nieuwenhuis — * we 
shall make a present of them to the Possibilists 

Liebknecht now is awfully anti-possibilistic, says they have turned 
out rogues and traitors and it’s impossible to act with them. Whereupon 
I told him we knew that six months ago and told them—him and his 
party—so but they knew better. He pocketed that in silence. He is not 
at all as cock-sure of his infallibility as he used to be—at least if other- 
wise, he does not show it. Otherwise he is personally the opposite of 
what he is in correspondence—he is the old jovial hail-fellow-well-met 
Liebknecht. 

But I must conclude. I have got the two boys* here who were 
enchanted at little Marcel’s> letter. They have been to the Zoo and want 
to write to their cher papa and I must clear out from the desk. 

Success to Paul in the Cher—I fully expected his fate at Cette, the 
town being too small not to be outvoted by the 74 hamlets making up 
the circonscription.© 

Nim’s love. 

Affectionately yours