Letter to Laura Lafargue, May 6, 1882

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 6 May 1882


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 35, Moscow, 1964
Reproduced from the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 46


MARX TO LAURA LAFARGUE

IN LONDON

Monte Carlo, 6 May 1882
Hôtel de Russie

My dear Cacadou,

Only a few hours since I arrived here at Monte Carlo.[1] I even doubt whether I shall find the time enough to indite a letter an- nounced already to Engels (at all events he will but receive it a day later).

For the present I am obliged to run about on different errands. I enclose one photo for you, another for Fred;[2] no art can make the man look worse.

Old Nick

  1. ↑ The words 'Here I am, here I remain' are ascribed to Mac-Mahon, who was supposed to have uttered them during the Crimean War, on 8 September 1855, in response to the suggestion that he retreat from the Malakhov Hill which he had seized and which was to be blown up by the Russians on 9 September.
  2. ↑ Engels