Letter to Friedrich Engels, August 12, 1870

Author(s) Eleanor Marx
Written 12 August 1870


First published in MEGA, Abt. III, Bd. 4, Berlin, 1931
Reproduced from the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44


ELEANOR MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[Ramsgate,] 12 August 1870
36 Hardres Street

My dear Engels,

You will see from the address that we are once more at Ramsgate.[1] I suppose you know that last Tuesday[2] Mohr and Jenny went to look for houses.—Mama and I left London yesterday, and after a very pleasant journey arrived here safe and sound. I say a pleasant journey, though I dont think Mama thought so. The sea was very rough, the waves washing over the ship and wetting everybody.—All the passengers with the exception of one lady, myself, and several gentlemen, were sea-sick. This lady and I climbed up just by the side of the Captain's deck, and there we sat down. It was great fun. This morning I turned out before six o'clock in the morning and walked about till nine. I intend to go to the sands now and take a good bath.—Yesterday Papa had a letter from Kugelmann.—He writes about that book to which Rossa's likeness is to be prefixed.[3] He thanks very much for what you wrote,[4] but says he has not got the likeness.— Now Jane sent it shortly after your preface was sent—so I suppose they didn't get it. Would you mind sending them your copy—you know that one that was given with The Irishman.—We shall be much obliged to you if you will.—Now I must finish, for I'm in a hurry to go out again, so with best love to all

Believe me to be

Your affectionate

Tussy

  1. ↑ Marx and his family were on vacation in Ramsgate from 9 to 31 August 1870.
  2. ↑ 9 August
  3. ↑ Engels means the portrait of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, a Fenian leader, which Ludwig Kugelmann asked to be sent for a collection of Irish folk songs entitled Erins Harfe being prepared for publication by Joseph Risse. At the request of Marx's eldest daughter Jenny, Engels wrote short notes for the Preface (see present edition, Vol. 21, p. 140). However, neither Rossa's portrait nor Engels' notes appeared in the collection, which was published in Hanover in 1870.
  4. ↑ F. Engels, 'Notes for the Preface to a Collection of Irish Songs'.