Letter to Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, December 29, 1881

Author(s)	Friedrich Engels
Written	29 December 1881

First published, in Russian, in the magazine Istorik-Marksist, Vol. 6 (40), Moscow, 1934
Printed according to the original
Translated from the Dutch
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 46

ENGELS TO FERDINAND DOMELA NIEUWENHUIS

IN THE HAGUE

London, 29 December 1881
122 Regent's Park Road, N. W.

Dear Comrade,

I am glad to be able to inform you that the news according to which Karl Marx is mortally sick is wholly false and fictitious. He has now got over his illness (bronchitis and pleurisy) and, on the advice of his doctors, has today left for Ventnor (the Isle of Wight); they hope that the warm climate and dry air there will rapidly complete his recovery. I will forward your letter to him.

Yours sincerely,

F. Engels