London, 4 September 1877 
122 Regent’s Park Road, N. W. 

Dear Mrs Liebknecht, 

No more than a short note in great haste in reply to your 
amiable letter of the 28th ult. Liebknecht had said something 
about coming to London from the Ghent Congress**; on my 
return from Ramsgate,” I now find that that Congress is to take 
place between 9 September (next Sunday) and 17 September (the 
following Sunday).* Now, I myself am leaving for Scotland to- 
morrow with my wife, on the doctor’s advice, and shall be there a 
fortnight,” during which time letters will not as a rule be able to 
reach me; I intend in any case to be back by Thursday the 20th, 
or Friday the 21st at the latest so that, even if Liebknecht were to 
come over on the 18th, he would arrive at most a couple of days 
before me. Moreover, during this period I shall keep in touch with 
my house by telegraph so as to ascertain all that is necessary 
concerning his arrival. The people who look after our house 
during our absence have been instructed to make him really 
comfortable when he arrives, his room is ready and waiting for 
him, and I am sure that my instructions will be complied with. 
Whether the Marxes will be back here by that time, I cannot quite 
say, but from the last news I got, I am inclined to think they will, 
as they had left Neuenahr and said nothing more about going to 
stay in the Black Forest, as originally intended.*” Perhaps you 
know more about it through Mrs Marx than we do over here. At 
all events, Liebknecht can obtain the latest news about this when 
he is in Ghent by dropping a line to Mad. Lafargue (Marx’s 
second daughter), 225 Camden Road, N. W., London. Should 
neither Marx nor I be here when Liebknecht arrives, he can find 
entertainment, not only at the Lafargues’, but also at the house of 
Marx’s eldest daughter, Mad. Longuet, 30 Leighton Grove, 
Leighton Road, Kentish Town, N. W., or look up our old friend 
Lessner, 12 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square. At the moment the 
Longuets are also away—at the seaside resort of Yarmouth—and 

a A slip of the pen: 16 September was a Sunday.