{London,] 2 March 1866 

Dear Frep, 

The thing will soon be all over now. I think that by tomorrow or 
the day after at the latest I shall not merely be able to rise from 
my bed, but to go out, and that with this last malignant cur the 
series of carbuncles is finished, ror ruis season. I also feel much 
better again ceneratty. This last attack was atrocious. It did not 
merely put paid to any work, but to any reading, too, excepr 
Walter Scott. 

I found the arsenic not at all unpleasant to begin with (when the 
taste of the cinnamon predominated). Now I am beginning to find 
its specific flavour most repugnant. Otherwise, I believe it was 
helpful. I took it 3 ties a pay from the outset. 

How are things with your contributions for The Commonwealth ?* 

And with John Watts ‘On Macuinery’?? 

a F, Engels, ‘What Have the Working Classes to Do with Poland?’ - > See this 
volume, pp. 224, 228. 

The sofa to which I have been confined for 9 days now is in my 
study, but right by the window, so that at certain times of day, 
e. g. as at this moment, I can enjoy a most refreshing breeze. 

You have no further cause for anxiety now, but as FAR as ACTUAL 
OUTBREAKS ARE CONCERNED you can regard the business as terminated. 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M. 
Little Tussy* ‘senps HER BEST COMPLIMENTS TO HER CHIMP’.