IN RENCHEN (BADEN) 

London, 4 December 1890 

Dear Goegg, 

Many thanks for your kind good wishes. We old ones are begin- 
ning to be thin on the ground, a fact of which I have again been pain- 
fully reminded by the death of my beloved Lenchen. Well, I 
suppose there’s bit of time left and I hope to make proper use 
of it. 

Your old friend 

F. Engels