June 14th

My dear Mahon

I will put the N of E S.F. in next week's issue: it is too late for this: I must of course make a remark about the programme. Pray do your best for Commonweal up there: this will be of use to you, you know, against the day when Aveling gets it out of my hands. I am sorry to say that your writing to the Bloomsbury Branch seems to have done no good: Donald, challenged as to the money collected as you were, instead of referring us to the B.B. as you rightly did. Set on the sec of the B.B.: to write a letter which was ill-mannered impudent & evasive: however the Council took it very coolly, & simply asked the B.B. to explain the matter further. Still we cannot submit to the B.B. claiming to boss the League. Send the articles & I will see I can't tell before hand can I? At the same time I dont want to make the Commonweal sectional so I will probably put them in. As to the subscription—No. not that I couldnt find the money or that I grudge it to Donald (though I think he has behaved very ill throughout) but that I think it better to give what I do give through the League's treasurer, & henceforward shall not give anything except that way. 

I don't think things will go smoothly but rather that the League will dissappear if a special conference is called, & you beat us of course that will end it, which I think will be a pity. I shall do my best to keep what remains of it together, & work in London all I can; not because of any theory but because it lies near my hand. If the League does dissappear, I shall try to get a dozen men together whom I can trust, & who have definite ideas about socialism and decline anybody who doesn't really hold these views: I will speak & write wherever I can: but I will not give one penny to support any set of people who wont come up to the test. 

Lastly to you personally get into work if you can & dont become a hack of any party.

Yours very truly

William Morris