[Postcard] 
[Algiers,] 23 March, Thursday [1882] 

Dear FRrep, 

Just now — after BREAKFAST—My HELP” lanced, etc., the dense throng 
of greatly distended blisters produced on one side of my chest by yes- 
terday’s embrocation; after which [he told] me to idle away another 
hour or two in bed; so here I am scribbling a few lines on this post- 
card, as there’s no time to be lost; for a messenger from this house is 
leaving for Algiers at an unusually early hour in order to take letters 
to the post office there, etc. (There’s no post to France on Mondays 
and Wednesdays.) 

Ever since Tuesday (21 March) another storm has been raging 
night and day save for the usual intervals—thunder, not much 
lightning, downpours in the evening and particularly at night, today 
in the morning as well. As the storm approached on Tuesday afternoon, 
presaged by a sky so overcast, pitch-black and lowering, I was 

* Laura Lafargue-" Maurice Casthelaz 

particularly struck by the réle the rruty Arrican sirocco played in the 
said storm.—- Dr Stephann here yesterday; EXAMINATION Satisfactory; prog- 
ress; still peccans* [are] a place at the very bottom of one side of my 
chest and a corresponding place on my back. Next week (i.e. asour 
Wednesday or Thursday of next week), my HELP is to refrain from 
embrocating those spots; so Stephann is specially reserving this for 
himself. 
Regards to all. 

Your 
Moor 

[On the side reserved for the address] 

Fr. Engels 
122 Regent’s Park Road, 
London, N. W., Angleterre