Letter to Friedrich Engels, April 4, 1882

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Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 4 April 1882


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 4, Stuttgart, 1913. Printed according to the original. Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 46
Keywords : Letter, Friedrich Engels


MARX TO ENGELS

IN LONDON

[Algiers,] Tuesday, 4 April 1882

DEAR FRED,

Have received your postcard[1]; Laurachen's letter dated 29 March has also arrived.

My congratulations to Pumps.[2]

I'm progressing well on the whole but the weather is making an April fool of me.

[3][4]

On 31 March, Friday afternoon — a few hours before I DISPATCHED my letter to you[5]—Fermé called; he told me inter alia of a secret vouchsafed to him by an Algerian meteorologist, namely that next week the weather would d'abord*'[6] be very wild for 3 days on account of the sirocco, after which there would be 3-4 wet days but finally a normal spring would step into the breach, booted and spurred. And anyone who doesn't believe it is mistaken.

Meanwhile Saturday (1 April), as well as Monday (3 April), was warm (a bit 'too' CLOSE) but the wind (no sirocco yet) confined me to my balcony on account of the swirls of dust; by contrast, the morning of 2 April (Sunday) was so fine and inviting that I went for a 2 hours' stroll.

Last night a piping wind; rain at ABOUT 5 o'clock this morning; dry since 8 o'clock, sky overcast, continual squalls. Yesterday evening wonderful moonlight on the bay. I can never stop feasting my eyes on the sea in front of my balcony.

Give my best regards to Jollymeyer,[7] ditto the others.

Your

Moor

[On the side reserved for the address]

Fr. Engels

122 Regent's Park Road,
London, N. W. (Angleterre)

  1. ↑ A reference to the Adzhars' guerrilla warfare in the rear of the Russian army in the Caucasus, which held back its advance in that theatre of war.
  2. ↑ On 22 (10) June 1877, Russian troops crossed the Lower Danube. On the Russian army's crossing of the Middle Danube, see Note 294.
  3. ↑ " [Th. Spence,] The Nationalisation of the Land in 1775 and 1882..., London, Manchester,
  4. ↑ 1882.
  5. ↑ See this volume, pp. 225 27.
  6. ↑ at first
  7. ↑ Schorlemmer's jocular nickname from the English 'jolly' and the German 'Meier' (farmer).
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