[London,] 7 August 1879 

Dear Mr Meyer, 

I am today sending you your Gründer per Book-Post. 

My departure was held up as a result of Longuet’s having 
fallen ill: he is feared to have gastric fever, and we shall probably 
hear today what the verdict is. If the thing’s serious I shall have to 
abandon the trip to Jersey (which I wanted to visit because the 
place is new to my companion—my youngest daughter) and go 
to a seaside resort near London. I shall be going to one of these in 
any case, even after my return from Jersey, along with Madame 
Lafargue and my grandson, and look forward to your visiting me 
there. 

Should anything unforeseen happen to precipitate your depar- 
ture, perhaps you would be so kind as to return the volumes of 
periodicals (the Leipzig and Paris ones), at the same time letting 
me know (all letters will be forwarded to me from my house) 
whether the January issue (1879) of the Österreichische Monatsschrift 
für Gesellschaftswissenschaften was followed by a second. 

With best wishes for your future, and cordial regards from my 
wife and my daughter, Eleanor, 

Yours very sincerely, 

Karl Marx