[Postcard] 
[London,] 31 July 1882 

My dear Lavrov, 

I should have thanked you long since for sending me the Russian 
Manifesto,?>°* but | couldn’t very well write to you without giving you 
news of Marx and he had expressly forbidden me to tell anyone in 
Paris, no matter whom, that he was in Argenteuil. Unfortunately the 
prohibition of the doctors, who have given him strict instructions to 
talk as little as possible, means he is still in solitary confinement. 

Kovalevsky called while I was out. He only saw Miss Marx? and 
left no address. He must have departed a few days after his arrival, 
but I have absolutely no idea what route he took. It would seem that 
he intended to return to his own country. Miss Marx is at Argenteuil; 
if you wrote to Longuet, perhaps you might be able to learn more. 

Yours ever, 
F. E. 

[On the side reserved for the address] 

Monsieur P. Lavroff 
328 rue St Jacques 
Paris 

France