Letter to Rudolf Engels, November 9, 1875

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 9 November 1875


First published in Deutsche Revue, Jg. 46, Bd. 2, Stuttgart-Leipzig, 1921
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 45


ENGELS TO RUDOLF ENGELS

IN BARMEN

London, 9 November 1875

Dear Rudolf,

I'm sorry that nothing has come of Paul's[1] trip; next year, perhaps.

Last Saturday I and my wife returned from Heidelberg where we had taken our little one to spend a year en pension.[2] On the return journey we drank a truly excellent Oberingelheimer at the Domhotel; I at once ordered some to be sent to me and would ask you to arrange to pay Mr Theodor Metz, Domhotel, Cologne, 35 talers=l05 marks for my account. Cologne is a town of miracles. Thus, between the Cathedral and the Central Station, I came upon a gentleman so similar to Hermann[3] as to be indistinguishable from him, save that he seemed to have grown somewhat, had a more grizzled beard and looked frightfully serious. I was only waiting—alas in vain—for him to go through the usual performance of collecting himself before falling into his arms. This miracle happened last Friday morning between 10 and 11 o'clock.

Love to Mathilde[4] and the children.

Your

Friedrich

  1. ↑ Paul Engels
  2. ↑ In late October-early November 1875, Engels and his wife Lizzie Burns took Lizzie's niece Mary Ellen Burns to a boarding house in Heidelberg, where she stayed from November 1875 to March 1877. Engels and his wife returned to London on 6 November 1875.
  3. ↑ Hermann Engels
  4. ↑ Mathilde Engels