London, 29 December 1881 
122 Regent’s Park Road, N. W. 

Dear Comrade, 

I am glad to be able to inform you that the news according to 
which Karl Marx is mortally sick is wholly false and fictitious. He has 

@ Percy Rosher-” more or less 

now got over his illness (bronchitis and pleurisy) and, on the advice of 
his doctors, has today left for Ventnor (the Isle of Wight); they hope 
that the warm climate and dry air there will rapidly complete his re- 
covery. I will forward your letter to him. 

Yours sincerely, 

F. Engels