Letter to Jenny Longuet, July 22, 1881

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 22 July 1881


First published, in Russian, in the magazine Machalo, No. 5, St Petersburg, 1899. Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 46


MARX TO JENNY LONGUET

IN ARGENTEUIL

[London,] 22 July 1881

My dear Jenny,

The doctor[1] has just left Mama, and we shall start on Tuesday or Wednesday next. You will be informed by telegram of the exact day.

Please write at once, because Mama will not get away from London before you have written her which things from London may be required by you. You know she is fond of that sort of commission-business.

I enclose £5, since you will have to pay cash for the hire of bed-linen etc.; the remainder will be paid when I arrive. Only on these terms will I agree to the arrangement you have suggested.

As to the story Hirsch has told you with respect to Lafargue, it is a mere lie. Lafargue, as I was sure from the beginning, has never written anything of the sort to his Paris correspondents.

Adio, dear child, with thousand kisses to the children

Old Nick

  1. ↑ Donkin