| Hanover, 13 Mai, 1867.
My pretty little Cacadou,
My best thanks Siehe L.
Marx an Marx, 8.5.1867 „they have spoken
for themselves“.
Schließen for your letter, and that of the worthy
Quoquo. You complain that I had given no signs of
life, but on reviewing the question you will find that, on the whole, I have
given weekly signals. Moreover, you know that I am not of a very “demonstrative”
character, of rather retiring habitudes, a slow writer, a clumsy sort of man,
or, as Quoquo has it, an anxious man.
15. Mai 1867.
Schließen I shall leave Hanover the day after
tomorrow, and probably leave Hamburg by first steamer
for London. Yet, you must not expect me to settle the day and the hour. I have
still some business to transact with Otto Meißner. Siehe Marx
an J. Ph. Becker, zw. 9. u.
15.1.1867.
Schließen my publisher. At all events, Siehe
Marx
an Engels, 13.4.1867 und Erl.
Schließen this is the last week of my continental
stay.
I am very glad that
Siehe Marx
an J. Marx (Tochter), 5.5.1867 und Erl.
sowie J.
Marx (Tochter) an Marx, 8.5.1867 und L.
Marx an Marx, 8.5.1867.
Schließen my
photogramm has
met with such good reception. The shadow is at all events less troublesome than
the original.
Siehe
L. Marx an Marx, 8.5.1867.
Schließen As to Mrs Tenge, I wonder that you ask me how
she looks, whether she is pretty?
Siehe Marx
an J. Marx (Tochter), 5.5.1867 und
Erl.
Schließen I have sent
you
Jenny
her photogram, hidden behind my own.
How could it have been lost? Now, to answer your questions, she is 33 years of
age, mother of 5 children, rather interesting than pretty, and certainly no
professional wit. But she is a superior woman. As to “flirting”, he would be
rather a bold man who were to try it. As to “admiration”, I owe it, and there
may, perhaps, have been, on her side, some overestimation of your most humble
and “modest” master. You know, if no one is a
prophet on his own dunghill (speaking symbolically), people are easily
overvalued by strangers who, legen sie nicht aus, so legen sie doch unter, and
find what they were resolved upon to find in a fellah. She has left Hanover
Thursday last.
| Eight days since, the weather was still frosty and rainy. Now summer has at once burst into full bloom. On the whole, the weather, since my departure, was here as bad and changeable as it used to be in London. Only, and this is a great thing, the air is thinner.
These continentals have an easier life of it that we on the other side of the
Northern sea. With 2000 Thaler (300 £) you can live here most comfortably. For
inst., there exist here different gardens (à la Cremorne Gardens –
1845-1877 Vergnügungspark im Londoner Stadtteil Chelsea.
Schließen Cremourn, but
for
//
“respectable”,
and where all sort of people meet), much more artistically arranged than any in
London, good music being played every evening etc, where you can subscribe for
self and family—for the whole year—at the price of 2 Thalers, 6 sh.! This is
only a specimen of the cheap life the Philister indulge in at this place. Young
people amuse themselves more freely and at almost no
expence,
comparatively speaking. There is of course one great drawback—the atmosphere is
pregnant with dullness. The standard of existence is too small. It is a lot of
pigmees amongst whom you want no very high frame to feel Anspielung auf das Kapitel „A Voyage to Lilliput“
aus dem Roman „Gulliver's Travels“ von Jonathan Swift.
Schließen like Gulliver amidst
the Lilliputians.
There arrive this morning rather “excited” letters from Berlin. It seems that a collision between the workmen and the Pickelhauben is apprehended. I do not expect much for the present, but there is something brewing. The working class, in the greater centres of Germany, are commencing to assume a more decided and threatening attitude. One fine morning there will be a nice dance!
And now my dear little birdseye, Cacadou, secretary, cook, equestrian, poet, auf
Wiedersehn. Viele Gruesse an Jenny Marx.
Schließen Möhmchen,
Eleanor Marx.
Schließen Quoquo
and Jenny Marx
(Tochter).
Schließen Queque, Helena
Demuth.
Schließen Hellen, and last not least, Paul Lafargue. Anspielung
auf den Roman „Our
Mutual Friend“ von Charles Dickens.
Schließen our
| “
medical
mutual
friend”.
Adio
Your masterOld Nick.
Siehe die Abbildung
der überlieferten Beilage und ZB. Siehe auch J.
Marx (Tochter) an Marx, 28.4.1867 und
Erl. sowie Marx
an J. Marx (Tochter), 5.5.1867 und
Erl.
Schließen Enclosed Hegel,
presented by Kugelm. to
Mons. Lafargue.
Zeugenbeschreibung und Überlieferung
Zeugenbeschreibung
Der Brief besteht aus einem Bogen mittelstarkem, weißem Papier im Format 218 × 283 mm. Prägung: „Dr. L. Kglm.“ Marx hat die ersten zwei Seiten vollständig beschrieben, auf der dritten Seite stehen nur 5 Zeilen, die vierte Seite ist leer. Schreibmaterial: schwarze Tinte.
Von unbekannter Hand: auf der ersten Seite oben mit Blaustift die Vermerke: „3“ (umgerandet) und „– 3“.
Drucke
Anmerkungen zum Brief
Marx beantwortet Lauras Brief vom 8. Mai 1867 (L. Marx an Marx, 8.5.1867).
Dem Brief lag ein Foto von Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel bei. Das Foto von Hegel siehe Abbildung.
Beschreibung des beigelegten Fotos:
Foto von Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. o.D.
RGASPI, Sign. f. 389, op. 1, d. 99. Bl. 39. Positiv-Original. 6,2 × 10 cm, angefertigt nach einem Stich von Bollinger. Auf der Rückseite die Widmung von Louis Kugelmann: „Au cher confrère Mr Lafargue offert par L Kugelmann Dr Hannovre, 13/5 1867“ und von unbekannter Hand mit schwarzem Stift: „Hegel“ und „46“.
Siehe auch Familie Marx privat (2005). S. 110.
Zitiervorschlag
Karl Marx an Laura Marx in London. Hannover, Montag, 13. Mai 1867. In: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe digital. Hg. von der Internationalen Marx-Engels-Stiftung. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin. URL: http://megadigital.bbaw.de/briefe/detail.xql?id=M0000268. Abgerufen am 28.03.2024.