[London,} 28 August 1866 

My dear Cacadou,* 

I have received your letter, but not unopened, since it had to 
pass through the fingered hands of the Emperor.? 

It was always my opinion that to give the last finishing stroke to 
your ‘heducation’ some sort of boarding school training was still 
wanted. It will do you a great deal of good. 

Il hidalgo della figura tristaS left me at the corner of his house. 
His heart having been considerably shaken before, he seemed to 
bear his separation from me with a rather heroic indifference. 

My best wishes to +0=.4 

I enclose 5 |., the remainder to be sent in the second week. 

Yours humbly 
Old One 

a Laura’s jocular nickname - > Marx’s daughter, Jenny, who acted as his secret- 
ary - © the knight of the woeful character (Don Quixote); here Marx means Paul 
Lafargue - 4 Eleanor Marx 

Mama will start upon her own expedition to-morrow or 
after-to-morrow.’” A great push was wanted to set her amoving.