Oct 14th 1887

My dear Mahon

I am sorry, but it is really impossible for me to make the northern tour this autumn. I have several engagements, and for the rest I really cannot afford the time, or indeed the money: for business is slack, and my chance of not being driven into a corner lies in my working at it hard personally. I shall hope to be able to come north in the spring, & perhaps I should be as useful then as now. I am glad to hear that you are doing so well: but please get the Branch to pay regularly (I don't know if they owe much) If you can get them to do that and sell additional numbers (as you are doing) it will be better than donations. I will speak to Binning about his notes. I am in hopes we shall yet turn our backs on our quarrels; only there is one not back but Bax who is being steeped in the Marxite pickle over at Zurich who who I fear will want some sitting upon when he returns. It would be very foolish to let him embroil everything again merely to get a compact adherence to the German Social Democrats. 

Fraternally

W Morris