| Mchr 8
th
Aug 1869
Dear Jenny,
I have received
Lizzies
orders to thank you, in her name, for the very handsome
& very considerate present you made her in
the
volume of
Moore
’s
Irish
melodies.
You could not have made her a greater pleasure.
She knows, from her childhood, most of the tunes but scarcely one of them
completely, & so now she can refresh her rather broken-down memory from the
book. Next Sunday there is to be a grand Irish concert in which the whole Fenian
& Non-Fenian company, convicted & unconvicted, will have to join. I only
regret that the whole musical talent of our house will be unable to take full
advantage of the book when
Tussy
will have
left us; but then,
Mary Ellen
will
have to learn as much as is required for that.
When are you &
Mohr
going to 
| Holland &
Germany?
I have now, at last, made my
arrangements. I shall have to be in Ostend on the evening of the 17
th
or morning of the 18
th
August & intend to stay there for about a week. Probably I shall
come over to London on Monday the 16
th
& spend a
day with you, & to see whether I cannot make arrangements to meet you &
Mohr somewhere in Germany. If not, I shall very likely come straight home again
from Ostend. I hope, however, that you will, in the meantime, bring your plans
to some state of maturity so as to enable us to have a bottle of hock together
in its native country.
With kind regards to Mohr & your
Mama
, I
remain
Yours faithfully
F. Engels.