Joseph McCabe an Ernst Haeckel, London, 4. Mai 1909
16, Elm Grove.
Cricklewood.
London N. W.
May 4/09.
My dear Prof. Haeckel,
I am once more back in England & I want to thank you most heartily for your extreme kindness during my visit to Jena. Though the amount of travelling was very heavy for so short a time, I enjoyed the excursion immensely. I liked Weimar very much. It has a touch of Paris about it. Cologne also impressed me. I thought I should find dirt & squalor at least in so large a city, but I did not. || It was not until I got to Rotterdam that I found dirty streets of poor people as in England (& worse). Germany, as far as I saw it, is a fine country, & its vigous & general sanity will carry it far. I wish more English people could be induced to take holidays there, & so promote the harmony that should exist between our countries. I will do what little I can. From Brandenburg to Jena I met with the utmost kindliness & assistance, in spite of the recent pitiful controversy about the fleet. ||
Now, will you please send me a very short letter that I may read at the dinner of the Rationalist Press, which will be held next week. They are all looking forward to my report & to a message from you.
Again thanking you most cordially, & trusting that Mme. Haeckel & yourself will make a speedy recovery,
I remain,
Yours devotedly
Joseph McCabe