MARX TO HIS DAUGHTER JENNY*” 

[Manchester,] 2 June 1869 

My dear Emperor, 

The thing under the arm was no carbuncle, but another sort of 
abscess, which bothered me much but, since yesterday, is quickly 
healing. It was a fortune I was at Manchester. Otherwise, it might 
have turned out a troublesome affair. I am now quite in good 
health. 

I hope to be with you in the course of next week. Tussy will 
probably somewhat prolong her stay at Manchester.** After the 
restraint at Paris,**' she feels here quite at her ease like a 
new-fledged bird. 

I hope Lessner’s departure to Brazil is not yet definitively 
decided upon. I regret very much being not able to do something 
for him. With your usual kindness you seem to have sacrificed 
yourself in the interminable téte-a-téte of Sunday last. As to 
Lafargue’s paper,”* I feel rather uneasy. On the one hand, I should 
like to oblige Blanqui. On the other hand, my other occupations will 
not allow me to do much for them, but, above all things, I fear lest 
old Lafargue* should suspect me to push his son to premature 
political action and make him neglect his professional duties.” As it is, 
he has not much reason to delight in his connexion with the Marx 
family. 

4 Francois Lafargue - > See this volume, pp. 287-88. 

And now, dear By-Bye, good-by and my compliments to all. 
Your retainer 

Old Nick