[Postcard] 
Cannes, 4 Juin* 1882 

Dearest Child, 

I'll come at some of the first days of the week beginning on the 6th June. 
I cannot specify; it will depend on circumstance not to be exactly 
foreseen. Hence you oblige me greatly by not bothering about the exact 
day or hour of arrival. Till now, I have always found that nothing has 
done me more harm than people, at the station, waiting for me. Do not 
tell anybody else (ci-inclus le Gascon, le Russe et le Hirsch)’ that 
I am expected that week. I’ll want some absolute quietness alone with 
your family, No. 11, Boulevard Thiers. 

Yours, 
Old Nick 

@ June-? (this includes the Gascon [Lafargue], the Russian [Lavrov} and Hirsch) 

By ‘quietness’ I mean the ‘family life’, ‘the children’s noise’, that 
‘microscopic world’ more interesting than the ‘macroscopic’. 

[On the side reserved for the address] 

Madame Charles Longuet 
11, Boulevard Thiers, Argenteuil 

prés Paris