ENGELS TO MARX” 

London, 5 September 1874 

Dear Moor, 

Arrived back safely last night, or rather at 2 a.m., after a very 
rough but splendid sea-crossing*’—waves up to 20 feet high. 
Jenny rather sea-sick at first, but better after cevadxDeia*; [she 
spent] the whole time on deck in a warm, very well-sheltered 
place. Her chief problem is now irregular sleep, the poor girl 
spends the whole night brooding over her dead baby,” and there is 
nothing that can be done about it. 

Last Sunday* I wrote to you” at Kugelmann’s address, 
enclosing a crossed cHEQqUE for £30 made out to him. Should you be 
unable to cash it, telegraph Miss Burns: cheque RETURNED, and then 

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4 yomiting - > Charles Longuet - ¢ 30 August 

either send or bring the cheque back with you and I shall send 
notes. This is for the worst eventuality; I couldn’t manage things 
otherwise, but assume that on arrival it will be all right. If the sum 
is insufficient, as I almost suspect from your letter which was 
waiting for me here,* just drop me a line, and more will follow. At 
any event you must take the cure for as long as the doctor thinks 
necessary, and I enclose a further 2 £5 notes which I happen still 
to have for all eventualities—the first halves now, the second to 
follow in a few days. Particulars OF NOTES AT FOOT. 

Also waiting for me was a letter from Mesa*°—a very pleasant 
surprise, very nice of him. 

That the cure should begin by making your insomnia worse if 
anything seems normal to me in view of the inevitably stimulating 
effect of the waters. If you keep your doctor informed about the 
progress of this symptom, he will modify his orders accordingly, and 
make sure that the matter does not become too serious. 

Jenny wrote to Tussy this week—I think it was Tuesday or 
Wednesday, the letter will probably have arrived by now. 

Jenny suffered no after-effects from the tour of the caves, so 
that even a two-hour trip in an open carriage in the rain last 
Tuesday—the weather came down on us on the way home—went 
off well. She was in any case well protected with umbrella, 
WATERPROOF and shawl. On the whole, however, we had constant fine 
weather up to the very last days, while reports are that it has 
rained mercilessly on the continent. 

Jersey has changed significantly since we were last there.*’ A 
tremendous amount of building, elegant villas, large hotels, dear, 
almost English prices in them, and at the market, too, everything 
more expensive; the London market forces prices up even here. 
The French language is rapidly disappearing, even country 
children speak almost nothing but English among themselves, and 
people under 30 almost all speak English without a trace of a 
French accent. Only the older notables cling to French. There are 
also two small railways there now on which you never hear a word 
of French. In the season 5 different entrepreneurs organise 
excursions around the island every day. We went on one with 
more than 150 people in 8-9 carriages. The public: philistines, 
CLERK and vo.uNnTeER, and snobs all providing much occasion for 
amusement and sometimes annoyance. On such trips even in 
Jersey the true Briton casts off his laboriously acquired pomestica- 
tion, but resumes it all the more conscientiously at the table d’héte. 

@ See this volume, pp. 33-34.