Letter from Karl Marx to Laura Marx in Hastings, [London,] 28 August 1866. Written in English. Text after the manuscript, MEGAdigital (MEGA² III/14, letter no. 160), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, CC BY-SA 4.0, without the editors' apparatus. Traducción al español
28 Aug. 1866.
My dear Cacadou,
I have received your letter, but not unopened, since it had to pass through the light fingered hands of the Emperor.
It was always my opinion that to give the last finishing stroke to your “heducation”, some sort of boarding school training was still wanted. It will do you a great deal of good.
Il hidalgo della figura trista left me at the corner of his house. His heart having been considerably shaken before, he seemed to bear his separation from me with a rather heroic indifference.
My best wishes to ± ∞ ∓.
I enclose 5 l., the remainder to be sent in the second week.
Yours humbly
Old One.
Mama will start upon her own expedition to morrow or after to morrow. A great push was wanted to set her a moving.