Marx-Engels Correspondence 1856
Source: MECW Volume 40, p. 66;
First Published: First published in Annali, an. I, Milano, 1958
Translated By: Peter and Betty Ross
My one and only Sweetheart,
This morning, at the same time as your letter, I received a note from Frederic [Frederick Engels] containing 15 talers for Lenchen. [Helene Demuth] Acknowledge it, as he is most meticulous in such matters. More tomorrow; today I have the immortal Collet here in the room with me and am keeping him in check by saying *‘I am obliged to write some lines to Mrs Marx’*.
Lily-white Sandy is settled in reality, not in fancy.
Much though I hanker after you and the children — and this quite indescribably — I should like you to stay on in Trier for another week. It would do you and the children no end of good. More tomorrow.
Your
K. M.
P.S. The Urquhartites are being damned importunate.[See this volume, pp. 61-62.] A good thing financially. But I don’t know whether, politically, I ought to get too involved with the fellows. A thousand kisses, my beloved sweetheart.
P.S.II. Lina [Caroline Schöler] has got the famous post. Won’t be taking it up for weeks yet.
It’s ghastly for me, having to play the man of fashion chez Liebknecht now. Hang it1 On top of that, I have Pieper sleeping with me in your stead. Horrible. In the same room, at any rate. Engels is coming next week.[83] That’s a relief. For 3 weeks I’ve been as hypochondriacal as the devil.