Letter to Jenny Longuet, May 26, 1882

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 26 May 1882


First published, in Russian, in the magazine Nachalo, No. 5, St Petersburg, 1899
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 46


MARX TO JENNY LONGUET

IN ARGENTEUIL

[Postcard]

Monte Carlo, 26 May 1882
Hôtel de Russie

Dearest Child,

I am always happy to receive a letter from you, though regretting that your Old Nick steals some time of your night's rest.

My health is improving with the weather; possibly I shall perhaps at the beginning of June go to Cannes, and remain there for a week or so. Everything depends of medical advice, and the character of the summer opening in June.

[As to] Lafargue's (I mean the man's of Cuba) paper[1] has committed great blunders, mostly from ignorance, and the childish aspiration 'to go as far as possible'.

As to the Bataille, I have seen till now not anything brilliant. In fact I do know it only to No. 4; but I will have always the time to see that!

My heart is with you and the children; I yearn for them. However, I shall, after a series of most disagreeable 'medical' experiments, precipitate nothing. With all that, I hope to be soon with them.

Your

Old Nick

[On the side reserved for the address]

Madame Charles Longuet

11, Boulevard Thiers, Argenteuil

près Paris

  1. ↑ L'Egalité