| Author(s) | Friedrich Engels |
|---|---|
| Written | 9 July 1869 |
ENGELS TO JENNY MARX LONGUET
IN PARIS
[Manchester, 9 July 1869]
affairs are regularly settled, which will take about a month. In the meantime I walk about a good deal with Tussy and as many of the family, humane and canine, as I can induce to go with us. We have just come back from a long walk through the fields to Heaton Chapel, about 5 or 6 miles the way we went, Tussy, Lizzie, Mary Ellen,[1] myself and two dogs, and I am specially instructed to inform you that these two amiable ladies had two glasses of beer a-piece (this is the vernacular Lancashire in which I got my orders). No wonder I had to bring them home by the train (we have a station about seven minutes' walk from our house), but no sooner arrived, than they walked, in common with me, into your Lager-Beer. Now they are getting their tea ready, or getting themselves ready for it, I don't know which, and after that there will be a reading of Irish novels which is likely to last till bedtime or nearly so, unless relieved by a bit of talk about the 'convicted nation'.[2] Anyhow, they seem to like it, and so it's all right to me.
Meanwhile they all send you the heartiest greetings, and I'll do the same.
Your with all my heart
F. Engels
If you and Moor don't go to Germany before the end of this month or if you don't return before the end of September, I may possibly meet you there somewhere.[3]