Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann, September 5, 1892

Author(s)	Friedrich Engels
Written	5 September 1892

First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXIX, Moscow, 1946
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 49

ENGELS TO LUDWIG KUGELMANN

IN AHLBECK

Ryde, 5 September 1892

Dear Kugelmann,

There will be no trip to Germany for me this year. I have gone lame and must take it easy for the next fortnight at least before I can so much as begin to move about again. Meanwhile I shall be return- ing to London tomorrow.^[1] However I still intend to make another tour of inspection of my native land next year, but whether I shall also manage to take in Hanover is impossible to say so far in advance, the more so as I have seen this summer how quickly all such plans can come to nothing, for this year I have been cheated out of a long and delightful trip and who can tell whether we shall still be alive next year. But you may rest assured that I shall leave the 'Pomeranian grandees'^[2] to others. The last of them I saw was an alleged Baron Grumbkow, a seedy looking individual who in the role of professional beggar tried to touch me for a loan some six months ago but was thrown out. Cela me suffit! With many regards.

Your

F. Engels

Please let Singer have the enclosed.

↑ Engels came to Ryde for a holiday on 27 July 1892. Illness made him stay on until 6 September.
↑ Pomeranian grandees was the phrase Ludwig Kugelmann, then at the Baltic resort of Ahlbeck, in Pomerania, used in his letter to Engels of 21 August 1892 to refer to the Prussian Junkers.

[1] Engels came to Ryde for a holiday on 27 July 1892. Illness made him stay on until 6 September.

[2] Pomeranian grandees was the phrase Ludwig Kugelmann, then at the Baltic resort of Ahlbeck, in Pomerania, used in his letter to Engels of 21 August 1892 to refer to the Prussian Junkers.

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