I request Your Honour not to plague me in future with 
beginnings of letters such as you learned from Herr Riepe and 
only permit myself for the moment to remark that it is winter with 

us every morning and summer every midday. For in the morning 
the temperature is minus five degrees, while it is plus ten degrees 
at midday. I continue to practise my singing and composing 
regularly. Here is a sample of the latter: 

You can sing The Blind Man to that melody or you can leave it. 
March 12,7 I’m very glad that you will soon be getting your dog. 
What is the breed of the mother and what does the animal look 
like? His Antiquity, Herr Leu- 
pold, is now arriving at the of- 
fice and I will have to strike 
a more serious tone, as the 
great Shakespeare says. A new 
newspaper has just come out 
called the Bremer Stadtbote,” 
edited by Albertus Meyer, 
who is a very great blockhead. 
He used to lecture on the hap- 
piness of peoples, child edu- 
cation, and other topics, and 
when he wanted to get his 
lectures printed the worthy 
authorities would not agree, 
saying it would be far too non- 
Walking in front of the Bremer sensical. He has the nature 
Stadtbote is a eeite who looks like of a china merchant and has 
been in conflict with the Un- 
terhaltungsblatt© ever since his first issue. The way they go for 
each other would make you die laughing. Continuation in letter 
to Marie. 

Your loving brother 
Friedrich Engels