I cannot allow this note to go off to your mama without 
thanking you for the two lovely portraits which you asked Moor to 
bring me. They have found a temporary home on the CHIMNEY-PIECE 
in front of the looking-glass, but in a day or two will be given a 
splendid place of their own on the wall. 

I hope Mr. Schleiden suits you all right*; the man’s far more 
solemn than you are, and I only hope you won’t see fit to imitate 
him. 

Dai ritratti vedo con piacere che avete molto grandito tutte le due e che, 
benché siate grande signorine adesso, vi sono sempre le vecchie faccie 
piene di franchezza ed ingenuita; e credete pure ché anch’ io per voi saro 
sempre il vecchio” 

Engels 
Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXII, é : , . 
Moscow, 1929 Published in English for the first 

time 

@ Probably a reference to the book: M. J. Schleiden, Die Pflanze und ihr Leben. - > I 
see with pleasure from your portraits that you have both grown a lot and that, 
although you are now grown-up young girls, your faces are still as frank and artless as 
of old; and you must believe me still to be your old 

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