Letter to Hermann Engels, September 22, 1890

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 22 September 1890


First published in Deutsche Revue, Jg. 46, Bd. 3, Stuttgart-Leipzig, 1921
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 49


ENGELS TO HERMANN ENGELS

IN ENGELSKIRCHEN

[London,] 22 September 1890

Dear Hermann,

When your letter of 28 May arrived I was just expecting a visit from my Dublin wine merchant and so I decided to wait and discuss the matter with him in person. As it happened, however, the man didn't come until the end of June when I was wholly taken up with my impending departure[1] and so forgot about your sherry until re- minded a few days ago by another look at your letter and again today by your second one. Not that you will have suffered as a result, since travelling during the hot weather would have done the wine no good and it will at any rate now travel more safely. I shall write to Dublin at once and see what can be done. Brett will certainly supply you with good wine; I have laid down another 50 or 60 dozen claret and port of the recent good years; I don't use much sherry, but in this re- spect, too, the chap is reliable. So more news very shortly. I have just spent 4 weeks beside the Channel, at Folkestone, and feel extremely well and cheerful. Let's hope it lasts! Love to you and yours,

From your old

Friedrich

  1. ↑ to Norway