[Manchester,] 10 May 1864 

Dear Jenny, 

Poor Lupus, as it now transpires—and as Borchardt already 
knew—had accumulated a nest-egg by dint of hard and unremit- 
ting work. 

In his will (of December 1863) he appointed Engels, Borchardt 
and myself his executors, and the notary has just read us his will. 
In it he leaves: 

1. £100 to the Manchester Schiller Institute *”° 

2. £100 to Engels 

3. £100 to Borchardt and 

4. The entire residue, amounting to six or seven hundred 
pounds, to me (to you and the children should I predecease him; 
he took care of all eventualities), likewise his books and all other 
effects. 

I must now go to his lodgings and sort out his papers. Luckily 
he was living—during the final 6 or 7 weeks, at any rate—with 
exceptionally good and worthy people and enjoyed the best 
possible nursing. The inane telegrams about nursing attendants *— 
of which Gumpert knew nothing—were sheer ostentation and 
consequentiality on the part of Bombastus B. 

A thousand kisses to you and the children. 

Your 
Karl