Manchester, 2 May 1869

Dear Mohr,

I would have written to you long ago if you hadn’t kept me waiting for that “more tomorrow”. I hope your wife is improving with the fine weather; the journey will hardly do her any harm – a change of air usually has a very beneficial effect on these coughs brought on by irritation of the larynx. You can imagine the jubilation that the news aroused here that you would be bringing Tussy; you are now in for it & you must bring her in any case. Should she perhaps only be able to come a few days after your departure, that doesn’t matter; we can of course pick her up at the station. It might be that for health reasons you could come a little earlier. You don’t write how you are; I would, in your place, set everything else aside and come the sooner the better – why let the thing become chronic and plague yourself with it for so long, when the cure is available daily.

Yours,
F. E.

Best regards to your wife and Jenny. The Cigale has not arrived.