| 25, Rue des
Saints-Pères
Paris
October 26th/68.
My dear Challey,
As I had a good many
letters to write since Paul und Laura Lafargue waren am
17. Oktober 1868 nach Paris abgereist. Siehe Marx
an Engels, 15.10.1868 („Uebermorgen reist
die family Lafargue ab nach Paris.“).
Schließen our arrival at
Paris, I put off writing to
you the first few days, thinking that my old master would be, of all my
correspondents, the most likely to take my silence in good part, & not to
grieve over-much at it. But by this time I am quite ready to have a little
epistolary chat with him & hope he will keep one of his ears open for me,
but not the deaf one.
Die Beilage ist nicht überliefert.
Schließen Enclosed is the letter you desired;
Schily is against taking possession of
the copies of Karl Marx: Misère de
la philosophie. Réponse à la philosophie de la misère de M.
Proudhon. Paris, Bruxelles 1847.
Schließen your book before having
fuller information as to the contract existing between Siehe Marx
an Engels, 15.10.1868 und
Erl.
Schließen Frank & his successors.
The old gentleman was as usual | very amiable, but seems a little nettled at the interruption of your correspondence with him. He is not much brighter than he was six month ago. I rather fancy he has been indulging more than was good for him in domino-playing.
As regards the sending over
of our boxes, I am much obliged to mama for
inquiring about the best mode of doing so, but for the present they must remain
in London. The fact is, that we may have to stop in our present apartments much
longer than we expected, Siehe Erl.
zu Marx an Engels, 23.8.1866.
Schließen
for
Paul’s
prospects with regard to getting his
diploma
here are as yet quite problematical. In the first place he must have an
interview with
Duruy & his “sub”, to state
his desire to work for his diploma in Paris. The Permission to do so depends not
on the decision of the minister alone but on that of the
| Conseil
academique which does not meet before December. Should this permission be
withheld, Paul would have to pass his
examinations in some other town of France. Thus, you see, whatever turn things
may take, we shall be in the dark respecting them for some time to come. It
would therefore, as Paul’s father wishes, be
absurd to furnish a set of rooms when we might perhaps have to sell our
furniture a few months after having bought it.
What news at home? How about
the Die britischen Unterhauswahlen vom 17. November
bis 7. Dezember 1868.
Schließen English elections? The French newspapers give no news
from abroad except from Spain. The “Univers” is highly amusing in its outbreaks against the revolution
there. It denies that it is a popular one, says that Spain is being victimised
by ten Thieves, & styles Prim “son
domestique endimanché”. In its
| opinion, the most shameful fact of this
glorious 19th century is the calling of Prim upon
Girardin to new-model the country of
the Cid, of St. Ferdinand & Charles the 5th.
Siehe H.
Jung an Marx, 19.10.1868.
Schließen And so the shouts of Le Lubez
& Consorts
have ended in the customary whisper. I was expecting news to that effect & was very glad that you had
allowed them to let off their pop-guns unnoticed.
How is everybody at home? I hope the little sprat is quite well again & quite equal to her physiology & the rest of her arduous studies. I wish some good wind would take it into its head to flow you over here: Up to the present it has only succeeded in giving me a cold, which, Paul says, is making me very stupid.
And now goodby, my dear little Mr Marx (as Avelin
Manning – Bekannte der Töchter von Marx.
Schließen Evelina
says,) for today.
Kakadou.
Zeugenbeschreibung und Überlieferung
Zeugenbeschreibung
Der Brief besteht aus einem Bogen dünnem, weißem Papier im Format 265 × 210 mm. Alle vier Seiten hat Laura Lafargue vollständig beschrieben. Schreibmaterial: schwarze Tinte.
Archivsignatur „q.67“ auf der ersten und zweiten Seite oben links.
Drucke
Anmerkungen zum Brief
Die Beilage („Enclosed is the letter you desired“) ist nicht überliefert.
Zitiervorschlag
Laura Lafargue an Karl Marx in London. Paris, Montag, 26. Oktober 1868. 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=M0000805. Abgerufen am 28.03.2024.