Letter to Laura Marx, about September 8, 1866

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 8 September 1866


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 31, Moscow, 1965
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 42


MARX TO LAURA MARX

IN HASTINGS

[London, about 8 September 1866]

My dearest Cacadou,[1]

You must excuse if I write those few lines only. We want the inclosed Post Office Order for £3 to leave with the first Post, that is before 11 o'clock a.m. You will oblige me by writing us with what train you will leave Hastings next week, and when you will arrive here?

Poor child, your toothache would have been spared to you, if my advice had been followed and my own 'dentist' resorted to.

Your last letter has given much pleasure (the toothache news excepted) because we saw from it with what calm energy our Cacadou knows how to act.

Tell Quoquo[2] that mischief is brewing. The Emperor[3] fancies to be neglected by his subjects and feels rather sore.

Yours truly

Old One

  1. ↑ Laura's jocular nickname
  2. ↑ Eleanor Marx
  3. ↑ Jenny, Marx's daughter