| My ever laughing Engels,
If you find my
English good, I find your French astonishing, and you have
not near you such a pretty master to correct your mistakes
as I have. The French “grisettes” who have taught you, have
so well earnded.
Schließen earnt their
money that you would.
Schließen wouldt need
them no longer for that purpose.
Although very
conceited I never had so great an opinion of the vigour of
my logic as to believe I could beat a square German head: I
had indeed received some hints that you would come before I
asked you; that obliges me to thank you twice over for
having had the intention and for wanting to give to my
letter the merit of it. My Laura is
delighted at the idea
| of your coming. She will teach
me German if there is room enough in my confused brain for a
new language. Eleanor
Marx.
Schließen Tussy and Marx believe that it
has been submitted to too great a softening process; I hope
that some years of rest and intellectual good digestion may
restore it to its former hardness.
Au revoir, come as early as possible to allow me to see you before this great day; on which I shall be on pins and needles & unable to listen to you or anybody else.
Votre devoué PLafargueP. S. Marx has told me that you were beginning your English articles. If you could finish them before my starting from London it would be a good thing, as I should be able to take them to Beesly who will certainly get them inserted in the Fortnightly Review.
Zitiervorschlag
Paul Lafargue an Friedrich Engels in Manchester. London, um Mittwoch, 25. März 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=M0000588. Abgerufen am 28.01.2023.