MARX TO JENNY MARX”? 

[Manchester,] 9 May 1864 
Dear Jenny, 

Poor Lupus died today, at 10 minutes past 5 in the afternoon. I 
have just left his death-bed. 

I went to see him on the evening of the day I arrived from 
London,* but he was unconscious. The next morning he recog- 
nised me. I saw him in company with Engels and the two doctors° 
and, when we were leaving, he called after us (in a weak voice): 
‘You will come back, won't you?’ It was a moment of lucidity. Soon 
afterwards he relapsed into a state of apathy. Up till Thursday— 
or really Friday‘—-evening, things hung in the balance so that 
there was some doubt about the outcome. But he was unconscious 
from Friday evening until the moment of his passing away. So 
long did it take for him to die, though he was not in pain. He was 
unquestionably the victim of that bombastic bungler.* I shall write 
at greater length tomorrow. 

In him we have lost one of our few friends and fellow fighters. 
He was a man in the best sense of the word. His funeral will be on 
Friday.“ 

Your 
Karl 
original (German), in Annali, an. I, 
Milan, 1958 

* 3 May -> Louis Borchardt and Eduard Gumpert-° 5 and 6 May 
4 Borchardt - © 13 May