Letter to Hermann Engels, July 28, 1892

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 28 July 1892


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


ENGELS TO HERMANN ENGELS

IN BARMEN

Ryde, Isle of Wight, 28 July 1892 The Firs, Brading Road

Dear Hermann,

Very many thanks for your letters. I'm sorry that my plans should have clashed to some extent with yours, but because of other arrangements I was more or less tied to a fixed date and could not very well upset these so long as there was no positive word from you. Everything is now in order and, unless I advise you to the contrary, I shall arrive on the 12th (probably by the first train from Cologne) and shall in any case telegraph from there.

I have been here since yesterday and intend to stay until the 9th, or at any rate the 8th, of August.[1] The weather is magnificent, cloud- less sky, temperature 16-17 Reaumur, a fresh easterly wind, flowers and beautiful trees outside my window, wonderful air, barely a kilo- metre from the sea though nearly 200 ft above it, and with hills and coppices all around.

So here's to our meeting. Meanwhile my love to Emma[2] and the children.

Your old

Friedrich

  1. ↑ Engels came to Ryde for a holiday on 27 July 1892. Illness made him stay on until 6 September.
  2. ↑ Hermann Engels' wife