Letter from Friedrich Engels to Jenny Marx, Marx’s eldest daughter, in London, written in Manchester on 8 August 1869. The manuscript is preserved (RGASPI, Moscow). Text from the manuscript, MEGAdigital (MEGA² III/16, letter no. 251), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, CC BY-SA 4.0, without the editors’ apparatus. Traducción al español
Mchr 8th Aug 1869
Dear Jenny,
I have received Lizzies orders to thank you, in her name, for the very handsome & very considerate present you made her in the volume of Moore’s Irish melodies. You could not have made her a greater pleasure. She knows, from her childhood, most of the tunes but scarcely one of them completely, & so now she can refresh her rather broken-down memory from the book. Next Sunday there is to be a grand Irish concert in which the whole Fenian & Non-Fenian company, convicted & unconvicted, will have to join. I only regret that the whole musical talent of our house will be unable to take full advantage of the book when Tussy will have left us; but then, Mary Ellen will have to learn as much as is required for that.
When are you & Mohr going to Holland & Germany? I have now, at last, made my arrangements. I shall have to be in Ostend on the evening of the 17th or morning of the 18th August & intend to stay there for about a week. Probably I shall come over to London on Monday the 16th & spend a day with you, & to see whether I cannot make arrangements to meet you & Mohr somewhere in Germany. If not, I shall very likely come straight home again from Ostend. I hope, however, that you will, in the meantime, bring your plans to some state of maturity so as to enable us to have a bottle of hock together in its native country.
With kind regards to Mohr & your Mama, I remain
Yours faithfully
F. Engels.