[Postcard] 
[Algiers,] Tuesday, 4 April 1882 

Dear Frep, 

Have received your postcard ***; Laurachen’s letter dated 29 
March has also arrived. 
My congratulations to Pumps.? 
I’m progressing well on the whole but the weather is making an 
April fool of me. 

* [Th. Spence,] The Nationalisation of the Land in 1775 and 1882..., London, Manchester, 
1882. 

On 31 March, Friday afternoon — a few hours before I dispatched 
my letter to you*— Ferme called; he told me inter alia of a secret 
vouchsafed to him by an Algerian meteorologist, namely that next 
week the weather would a’abord” be very wild for 3 days on account of 
the sirocco, after which there would be 3-4 wet days but finally a 
normal spring would step into the breach, booted and spurred. And 
anyone who doesn’t believe it is mistaken. 

Meanwhile Saturday (1 April), as well as Monday (3 April), was 
warm (a bit ‘too’ crose) but the wind (no sirocco yet) confined me to 
my balcony on account of the swirls of dust; by contrast, the morning 
of 2 April (Sunday) was so fine and inviting that I went for a 2 hours’ 
stroll. 

Last night a piping wind; rain at asour 5 o’clock this morning; dry 
since 8 o’clock, sky overcast, continual squalls. Yesterday evening 
wonderful moonlight on the bay. I can never stop feasting my eyes on 
the sea in front of my balcony. 

Give my best regards to Jollymeyer,: ditto the others. 

Your 
Moor 

[On the side reserved for the address] 

Fr. Engels 
122 Regent’s Park Road, 
London, N.W. (Angleterre)