Letter to Jenny Longuet, June 4, 1882

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 4 June 1882


First published in Russian in the magazine Nachalo, No. 5, St Petersburg, 1899
Reproduced from the original
Published in English in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 46


MARX TO JENNY LONGUET

IN ARGENTEUIL

[Postcard]

Cannes, 4 Juin[1] 1882

Dearest Child,

I'll come at some of the first days of the week beginning on the 6th June. I cannot specify; it will depend on circumstance not to be exactly foreseen. Hence you oblige me greatly by not bothering about the exact day or hour of arrival. Till now, I have always found that nothing has done me more harm than people, at the station, waiting for me. Do not tell anybody else (ci-inclus le Gascon, le Russe et le Hirsch)[2] that I am expected that week. I'll want some absolute quietness alone with your family, No. 11, Boulevard Thiers.

Yours,

Old Nick

By 'quietness' I mean the 'family life', 'the children's noise', that 'microscopic world' more interesting than the 'macroscopic'.

[On the side reserved for the address]
Madame Charles Longuet

11, Boulevard Thiers, Argenteuil

près Paris

  1. ↑ June
  2. ↑ (this includes the Gascon [Lafargue], the Russian [Lavrov] and Hirsch)